Setting Up Scenes and Plots

The starting file for this tutorial provides several pre-defined scenes and plots.

You prepare visualization of the direct solar irradiation on the rear housing and the temperature on the rear housing and the lens. To visualize the flow field, you display the streamlines inside the headlamp. Additionally, you set up plots of the minimum and maximum temperatures of the various headlamp components and of the total irradiation on the rear housing over iterations.
To set up the scenes:
  1. Expand the Scenes node and open the following scenes:
    • Direct Solar Irradiation
    • Streamlines
    • Reflector Temperature
    • Lens Temperature
  2. Set the field functions that are displayed in the scenes as follows:
    Node Property Setting
    Direct Solar Irradiation
    Scalar 1
    Scalar Field Function Radiation > Direct Solar Irradiation
    Streamlines
    Streamlines 1
    Scalar Field Function Velocity: Magnitude
    Reflector Temperature
    Scalar 1
    Scalar Field Function Temperature
    Lens Temperature
    Scalar 1
    Scalar Field Function Temperature
For the streamlines in the Streamlines scene, set the vector field from which the streamlines are computed:
  1. Select the Derived Parts > Streamline node and set Vector Field to Velocity.
To set up the plots:
  1. Expand the Plots node and open the following plots:
    • Min/Max Temperature Plot
    • Irradiation Rear Housing Plot
  2. Expand the Reports node and set the field functions for the reports that are displayed in the plots as follows:
    Node Property Setting
    Temperature Reports Field Function Temperature
    Irradiation Rear Housing Field Function Radiation > Boundary Irradiation
    For SPMC simulations, boundary irradiation plots, such as the Irradiation Rear Housing Plot, allow you to judge convergence of the SPMC solver. Noisy boundary irradiation plots generally indicate that you need to reduce the statistical sampling factor in order to consider more aggregated rays in the final irradiation field.
By default, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ automatically normalizes the residuals for flow, energy, and turbulence. For this tutorial, you turn off the normalization:
  1. Expand the Monitors node, multi-select the following monitors, and set Normalization Option to Off:
    • Continuity
    • Energy
    • Tdr
    • Tke
    • X-momentum
    • Y-momentum
    • Z-momentum
  2. Save the simulation .