On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:33 PM, sgee <jaa...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I'm a CFD student and I wish to learn to make high-quality plots from my
> calculations using matplotlib. However, I'm a complete novice in using
> matplotlib and python and I didn't find any earlier posts so here goes.
>
> I have data form Ansys Fluent in the following form
> continuity x-velocity y-velocity energy
> k epsilon
> 1 0.00011115784 1.5359586e-07 1.0506172e-07
> 0.0032920227
> 0.40809903
> 1 0.16584706 0.0047719572 2.7355736e-07
> 0.026478255 0.19814095
> 0.5674 0.044237841 0.0026294924 2.8202695e-07 0.030139321
> 0.13935529
>
> The first line is for the first iteration, the second line for the second
> iteration etc. Basically, I would like to have plot this data and have a
> picture like http://openfoamwiki.net/images/f/ff/Pump_residuals.png this
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> BR Jack
>
Jack,
First, you would load your data using numpy's loadtxt() function. You can
tell loadtxt() to skip the first line since it is a header. This will give
you a 2-D array (n rows and 6 columns) where n is the number of iterations.
You can then plot the data using matplotlib's plot command (or semilogy to
automatically get y-log scaling), passing in the first column for the x
data, and then the other columns for the y data.
So, your code would look something like this:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
data = np.loadtxt('foobar.txt', skiprows=1)
plt.semilogy(data[:, 0], data[:, 1:])
plt.xlabel('Iteration')
plt.ylabel('Residuals')
plt.legend(['Ux_0', 'Uy_0', 'p_0', 'k_0', 'epsilon_0'])
plt.show()
That should get you a similar plot. There are more things you can do to
control various aspects, but this should get you a good start.
I hope this helps!
Ben Root
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