Other commands are:
- TRPLIS command (Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> List Trace Pt) - lists
trace points. - TRPDEL command (Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> Dele Trace Pt) -
deletes trace points. - TRTIME command (Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> Time Interval) -
defines the flow trace time interval. - ANFLOW command (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Particle Flow) - generat es an animated
sequence of particle flow.
Notes
- Three arra y parameters are created at the time of the particle trace: TRACPOIN, TRACDATA and TRACLABL.
These arra y parameters can be used to put the particle velocity and the elapsed time into path form. The
procedure to put the arrays into a path named PATHNAME is as follows:
*get,npts,PARM,TRACPOIN,DIM,x
PATH,PATHNAME,npts,9,1
PAPUT,TRACPOIN,POINTS
PAPUT,TRACDATA,TABLES
PAPUT,TRACLABL,LABELS
PRPATH,S,T_TRACE,VX_TRACE,VY_TRACE,VZ_TRACE,VS_TRACE - Particle flow traces occasionally stop for no apparent reason. This can occur in stagnant flow regions, near
wall flow regions, or when a particle is tracking along an element edge. T o resolve the problem, adjust
the initial particle point slightly in the cross stream direction. - For charged particle traces, the variables Chrg and Mass input by the TRPOIN command (Main Menu>
General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> Defi Trace Pt) have units of coulombs and kilograms,
respectively, in the MKS system. - The particle tracing algorithm could lead to an infinite loop. For example, a charged particle trace could
lead to an infinite circular loop. To avoid infinite loops, the PLTRAC command argument MXLOOP sets a
limiting value. - Charge particle tracing could be performed after an electrostatic analysis (using only electric field), or after
a magnetostatic analysis using only magnetic field or coupled magnetic and electric fields. The latter case
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