Plots

This section shows some of the common plots used in the water wading simulation. The steps to create the plots are:

Click Load Results in the Simulation Panel.
Select the required result file in the ensuing Load Results dialog box, click Open.

Water inducted in air induction system

Select AIS_outlet_outlet under Boundaries in the Geometric Entities Panel.
Click Add XY-Plot icon in the Toolbar.
Click Click for Variable List icon and select Volumetric Flux under Component water list in the Plot Panel.
Select Plot Selected Variables icon.
Click Plot Property icon, the Plot Property dialog box opens. Enable Moving Average and enter 50.
Select L/min for Unit under Display Units and click OK.

Figure 7.340 - Volumetric flux of water

Note: The moving average is used in transient simulations to obtain the average behavior over the entire simulation time. It can be specified as, click Click for Variable List

icon in Plot Property and enable Moving Average. The value in the Moving Average input is number of preceding time steps (sampling interval) for calculating the average..

Volume of water in AIS inlet, AIS outlet and AIS air filter

Select AIS_inlet, AIS_outlet and AIS_air_filter under Volumes in the Geometric Entities Panel.
Click Add XY-Plot icon in the Toolbar.
Click Click for Variable List icon and and select Volume from Component water list in the Plot Panel.
Click Plot Selected Variables icon.
Click Plot Property icon, the Plot Property dialog box opens.
Select L for Unit under Display Units and click OK.

Figure 7.341 - Volume of water

Pressure force in z-direction

Select all Boundaries in the Geometric Entities Panel, except the boundaries with prefix vehicle and wheel and AIS_outlet_outlet.
Click Add XY-Plot icon in the Toolbar.
Click Click for Variable List icon and select Pressure Force Z from Multi-component Flow list in the Plot Panel.
Click Combine Entity Data into a Single Curve icon to obtain the net pressure force in X direction.

Figure 7.342 - Pressure force in z direction