Plotting a rankine half body
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I'm trying to plot a rankine half body, a flow field formed by superposition of a horizontal uniform flow and a source flow. The figure turned out to be a mess, I don't know how I should fix it. Here are my codes:
clc;
clear all;
m=3; %strength
U = 30;%positive x-axis
%Mesh for fourth quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X1,Y1] = meshgrid(.05:.1:30,-30:.1:-.05);
psi1 = U*Y1 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y1./X1);
%Mesh for first quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X2,Y2] = meshgrid(.05:.1:30,.05:.1:30);
psi2 = U*Y2 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y2./X2);
%Mesh for second quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X3,Y3] = meshgrid(-30:.1:-.05,.05:.1:30);
psi3 = U*Y3 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y3./X3);
%Mesh for third quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X4,Y4] = meshgrid(-30:.1:-.05,-30:.1:-.05);
psi4 = U*Y4 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y4./X4);
figure (1)
A='on';
B = 2;
C = 2.5;
contour(X1,Y1,psi1,'k','showtext',A,'textstep',B,'levelstep',C);
hold on;
contour(X2,Y2,psi2,'k','showtext',A,'textstep',B,'levelstep',C);
hold on;
contour(X3,Y3,psi3,'k','showtext',A,'textstep',B,'levelstep',C);
hold on;
contour(X4,Y4,psi4,'k','showtext',A,'textstep',B,'levelstep',C);
hold off;
xlim([-30 30]);ylim([-30 30]);
xlabel('X');ylabel('Y');
grid on;
'''
Here is the figure I got:
However, it should at least look something like this:
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Accepted Answer
Alan Stevens
on 20 Oct 2020
Edited: Alan Stevens
on 20 Oct 2020
Try this
m=3; %strength
U = 20;%positive x-axis
%Mesh for fourth quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X1,Y1] = meshgrid(0.005:0.01:3,-3:0.01:-0.005);
psi1 = U*Y1 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y1./X1);
% %Mesh for first quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X2,Y2] = meshgrid(0.005:.01:3,0.005:.01:3);
psi2 = U*Y2 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y2./X2);
% %Mesh for second quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X3,Y3] = meshgrid(-3:.01:-0.005,0.005:.01:3);
psi3 = U*Y3 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y3./X3);
% %Mesh for third quadrant and corresponding stream value function
[X4,Y4] = meshgrid(-3:.01:-0.005,-3:.01:-0.005);
psi4 = U*Y4 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y4./X4);
figure (1)
A='on';
B = 2;
C = 5;
contour(X1,Y1,psi1,'k','ShowText',A,'TextStep',B,'LevelStep',C);
hold on;
contour(X2,Y2,psi2,'k','ShowText',A,'TextStep',B,'LevelStep',C);
contour(X3,Y3,psi3,'k','ShowText',A,'TextStep',B,'LevelStep',C);
contour(X4,Y4,psi4,'k','ShowText',A,'TextStep',B,'LevelStep',C);
xlim([-4 4]);ylim([-4 4]);
xlabel('X');ylabel('Y');
grid on;
In your original you were plotting so many contours they were all on top of each other!
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Alan Stevens
on 20 Oct 2020
Here's a leaner version:
lo = -30; hi = 30;
x = linspace(lo, hi, 200);
m = 1000; %strength
U = 30;%positive x-axis
[X1,Y1] = meshgrid(x,-x);
psi1 = U*Y1 + (m/(2*pi))*atan(Y1./X1);
figure (1)
A='on';
B = 200;
C = 50;
contour(X1,Y1,psi1,'k','ShowText',A,'TextStep',B,'LevelStep',C);
xlim([-hi hi]);ylim([-hi hi]);
xlabel('X');ylabel('Y');
grid on;
It produces this:
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