Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide

GUI:

Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Q-Slice Contours

Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Q-Slice Vectors

14.5. Isosurface Techniques

Isosurface displays are surfaces of constant values (for example, stress). To obtain an isosurface display
of von Mises stress, perform these steps:

1. Issue the command /CTYPE,1 (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Style> Contours> Contour Style).


2. Issue the command PLNSOL,S,EQV (Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Contour Plot>
   Nodal Solu).

You can animate isosurfaces. To do so, either invoke the ANISOS macro (Utility Menu> PlotCtrls>
Animate> Isosurfaces).

14.6. Controlling Particle Flow or Charged Particle Trace Displays

You can produce graphic displays of how a particle travels in a flowing fluid or how a charged particle
travels in an electric or magnetic field. See The General Postprocessor (POST1) for more information on
graphic displays and see Animation (p. 287) for information on particle trace animation. See the Mech-
anical APDL Theory Reference for simplifying assumptions on electromagnetic particle tracing.

To produce particle flow or charged particle trace displays, use either of the following:
Command(s):PLTRAC
GUI: Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Plot Flow Tra
Utility Menu> Plot> Results> Flow Trace
Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Particle Trace
Utility Menu> PlotCtrls> Animate> Particle Flow

Such displays require you to select the trace points by number or by picking. To select points, use either
method shown below:
Command(s):TRPOIN
GUI: Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> Defi Trace Pt

You can list or delete these points using the commands shown below:
Command(s):TRPLIS
GUI: Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> List Trace Pt
Command(s):TRPDEL
GUI: Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> Dele Trace Pt

Use either of the following to animate the particle flow or charged particle trace to a specified elapsed
time.
Command(s):TRTIME
GUI: Main Menu> General Postproc> Plot Results> Flow Trace> Time Interval

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