Select Tail (the default) to position the arrow’s tail at the arrow position,
Head to position the arrow’s head at the arrow position, or
Center to position the center of the arrow at the arrow position.
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Proportional (the default), so that the length of the arrows is proportional to the magnitude of the quantity they represent.
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Normalized, so that all arrows have the same length.
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Logarithmic, so that the length of the arrows is proportional to the natural logarithm of the magnitude of the quantity they represent. This makes arrows representing small values relatively larger. The value in the Range quotient field (default: 100) determines the ratio between the smallest and largest values in the range of values for the logarithmic arrow length.
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When Uniform or
Uniform anisotropic is selected as the
Placement, also specify the
Number of arrows (default: 200).
Select the Scale factor check box to enter a scalar number to scale the arrows or use the slider to select.
Select an Arrow type:
Arrow,
Arrowhead, or
Cone. Also, for Arrow Volume, Arrow Surface, Arrow Line, Arrow Point, Point Trajectories, and Ray Trajectories plots, select
Double arrow for a double arrow with two arrowheads, which can represent a moment or torque, for example. Arrowheads are not available for Principal Stress and Coordinate System plots. When selecting the
Ellipse point style type in Point Trajectories and Ray Trajectories plots, you can select
None from the
Arrow type list to not display any arrows.
For surface and contour plots, for example, from the Coloring list select to use a
Color table (see
Coloring) or select
Uniform to use a single color from the
Color list. You can also select
Custom to define a custom color from the colored list below (on Windows) or by clicking the
Color button (on Linux and macOS) and then selecting a color from the color palette.
For arrows, and unless a Color Expression subnode determines the arrow colors, select an arrow
Color or select
Custom to define a custom color from the colored list below (on Windows) or by clicking the
Color button (on Linux and macOS) and then selecting a color from the color palette.
For lines in graph plots, select a Color:
Custom,
Cycle,
Cycle (reset),
Black,
Blue,
Cyan,
Gray,
Green,
Magenta,
Red,
White, or
Yellow.
If you select Cycle, it cycles through all the colors; if you have more than one line plot in a plot group and want to cycle through the same set of colors, select
Cycle (reset). The colors are defined in a text file. If there is a file
graphcyclecolors.txt in the preferences directory (
.comsol\v55 in your user directory), then it is used. Otherwise,
/data/colors/graphcyclecolors.txt under the COMSOL Multiphysics installation directory is used. For information about the file format, see
About Cycle Colors in the
COMSOL Multiphysics Programming Reference Manual.
If you select Custom, define a custom color from the colored list below (on Windows) or by clicking the
Color button (on Linux and macOS) and then selecting a color from the color palette. Enter a line
Width or use the slider to select.
In the color palette that opens, you can choose from a number of basic colors, or click Define custom colors to open a section where you can specify a specific color using sliders to define the R (red), G (green), and B (blue) components. You can also click one of the RGB values to enter a specific value (0–255). Click
Add to custom colors to add it to the set of available custom colors.
The Color legend check box is selected by default. Click to clear the check box if required. The legend position is determined by the settings in the
Color Legend section in the Settings window for the parent Plot Group node.
Select a Coloring:
Color table (default),
Uniform, or
Gradient.
If Color table is selected, and if the default color table (
Rainbow in most plots) is not suitable for the plot, try other options. See
Selecting Color Tables for details.
If Uniform is selected, select a
Color or
Custom to choose a different color.
If Gradient is selected, define the coloring as a gradient between two colors, which you specify from the
Top color and
Bottom color lists.
Select the Reverse color table check box to reverse the order of the colors in the color table (if
Coloring is set to
Color table).
Select the Reverse color gradient check box to reverse the order of the colors in the color gradient (if
Coloring is set to
Gradient).
Select the Symmetrize color range check box to obtain a color range centered around zero for a color table or color gradient. This setting is useful for visualizing wave-like solutions with zero bias.
Define the semi-major and semi-minor axes of the ellipse using vector expressions. For the Semi-major axis expression and
Semi-minor axis expression, click the
Replace Expression button (
) to select a predefined expression to replace the current expression, or press Ctrl+Space to insert a predefined expression (dimensionless). The expressions available are based on the physics interfaces used in the model. If the Geometrical Optics interface is used to compute ray intensity, the default expressions (typically
gop.pax,
gop.pay, and
gop.paz for the semi-major axis and
gop.pbx,
gop.pby, and
gop.pbz for the semi-minor axis) represent the shape and orientation of the polarization ellipse.
Define the entry method for an ellipse as the point type from the Ellipse entry method: Choose
Number of ellipses to enter a
Maximum number of ellipses, or choose
Collection of times to enter a number times in the
Times field.
Select the Ellipse scale factor check box to enter a scalar or use the slider to select.
Select the Fixed size check box to make the sphere radii have constant radius when zooming a plot using one of the following particle-style plot types that plot spheres in 2D and 3D: Particle Trajectories, Ray Trajectories, and Point Trajectories; Particle Tracing and Particle Tracing with Mass; Poincaré Map; and Phase Portrait.
In a Table Surface plot, choose Continuous (the default) to consider the (
x,
y, data) triplets as samples of a function data =
f(
x,
y), where
f(
x,
y) is continuous, or choose
Discrete to treat the samples as discrete and draw them as large pixels.
Select a Grid:
None (the default),
Fine,
Normal, or
Coarse. If
Fine,
Normal, or
Coarse is selected, also choose a
Color for the grid.
Particle trajectories can appear jagged because the output times for the simulation are too few to result in a smooth plot. You can improve the particle trajectories by using a uniform interpolation of the data for the particle trajectories. From the Interpolation list, select
None for no interpolation (the default), or select
Uniform to use a uniform interpolation of the data using additional interpolated times defined in the
Number of interpolated times field. The default is 100 interpolated times.
For contour, isosurface, and directivity plots, the Legend type list is available. You can choose
Automatic (the default for contour and directivity plots; not available for isosurfaces),
Filled for a filled (joined) legend, or
Line (the default for isosurface plots), for a legend with separated lines for the levels. The
Automatic setting provides a filled legend for filled contours and a line legend for line and tube contours.
Select a Marker type:
None,
Cycle,
Asterisk,
Circle,
Diamond,
Plus sign,
Point,
Square,
Star, or
Triangle.
If a marker is selected (excluding None), then from the
Positioning list, select
Interpolated or
In data points. For
Interpolated, enter the
Number of markers to display (the default is 8; the maximum is 10,000 markers) or use the slider to select. If
In data points is selected, the markers appear in the data points for the plot (which for a plot of a 1D solution are the mesh nodes).
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From the Line list (for line graphs and point graphs, for example): Cycle, Solid, Dotted, Dashed, or Dash-dot. If Cycle is selected, it cycles through all the options.
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From the Line type or Type list (for line, streamline, and particle trajectory plots, for example): Line, Tube, or None. For 3D Streamline, Particle Trajectories, Point Trajectories, and Ray Trajectories plots, Ribbon is also available. Ribbons are an alternative to tubes for visualization of, for example, the vorticity of a flow field.
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If Tube is selected, enter a Tube radius expression (the radius of the tube); click the Replace Expression button ( ) to select a predefined expression to replace the current expression, or press Ctrl+Space to insert a predefined expression (SI unit: m). The default is 1 m.
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If Ribbon is selected for streamlines, enter a width for the ribbons in the Width expression field; click the Replace Expression button ( ) to select a predefined expression to replace the current expression, or press Ctrl+Space to insert a predefined expression (SI unit: m). The default is 1 m. Select the Width scale factor check box to enter a user-defined scaling of the ribbons’ width in the associated field. By default, the program scales the width automatically.
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If Ribbon is selected for particle trajectories, specify a direction for the ribbons: At Ribbon direction, click the Replace Expression button ( ) to select a predefined expression to replace the current expression, or press Ctrl+Space to insert a predefined expression (SI unit: m). You can also edit the expressions in the Direction, x component; Direction, y component; and Direction, z component fields. Select the Width scale factor check box to enter a user-defined scaling of the ribbons’ width in the associated field. By default, the program scales the width automatically.
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For line plots where you specify the line width, enter a line Width or use the slider to select. If a line plot (graph plot) contains isolated data points (for example, in a logarithmic plot where parts of the data cannot be plotted), those data points follow the line width down to a minimum size for the points. Such isolated data points are replaced with line markers, if markers are used and plotted in the data points.
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If the plan is to create an Animation report, select the
Plot along lines when animating check box. This is useful for Particle Trajectories, Particle Tracing, Particle Tracing with Mass, and Point Trajectories plots.
Select a Point motion to specify what should happen
When particles leaves domain:
Stick to boundary (to plot the points on the boundary at the exit point) or
Disappear (to not render these points at all).
For static fields, specify the End time in the
Advanced section. It is possible that all particles have left the domain at the selected time. In that case, all points appear at the outflow boundary if
Stick to boundary is selected, and no points appear if
Disappear is selected. To make the points appear, specify an earlier end time.
Enter a Point radius expression; click the
Replace Expression button (
) to select a predefined expression to replace the current expression, or press Ctrl+Space to insert a predefined expression (SI unit: m). The default is 1 mm.
Under Point style, select a
Type:
Point,
None,
Comet tail,
Arrow, or
Ellipse. If
Point or
Comet tail is selected, enter a
Point Radius and
Radius Scale Factor.
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Comet tail and Arrow are available with the Particle Tracing, Particle Tracing with Mass, Particle Trajectories, Point Trajectories, and Ray Trajectories plots. All of them except Point Trajectories and Ray Trajectories require a license for the Particle Tracing Module. See Particle Tracing, Particle Tracing with Mass, Particle Trajectories, and Point Trajectories. The Ray Trajectories plot requires a license for the Acoustics Module or the Ray Optics Module.
Ellipse is available with the Particle Trajectories, Point Trajectories, and Ray Trajectories plots.
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Select the Radius scale factor check box to enter a scalar number for the scale factor.
If Logarithmic is selected as the arrow length, enter a
Range quotient, which is the ratio between the maximum arrow length and the arrow length below which no arrow is drawn. The default is 100.
Enter a Scale factor for the arrows using a positive scalar number in the field or by using the associated slider (for scale factors between 0 and 1).
Define the length and direction of the comet tail as a vector expression. For the Tail expression, click the
Replace Expression button (
) to insert a predefined expression into the
Tail, x component;
Tail, y component; and
Tail, x component (for 3D plots) fields. The expressions available are based on the physics interfaces used in the model. The default expressions (typically
pt.nvx,
p.nvy, and
pt.nvz) represent the negative of the particle velocity.
Select the Tail scale factor check box to enter a scalar number between 0 and 1 or use the slider to select.
Select Curve or
Solid from the
Type list for the type of histogram to plot when the
Function list under
Output is set to
Discrete. Select
Solid for filled histogram bins.
To plot only on the visualization mesh, select the Wireframe check box, and then click
Plot (
). This displays the surface plot as a triangular grid.