I have the experimental data of flow field. Can I use it to draw the streamlines?
Tecplot, Surfer, Matlab and Gis can be used but the first one is more appropriate for this approach.
I will recommend Tecplot, however it is not cheep - about 800$ per license. You can try it for free (14 days) and if you wish they will extend your trial version for couple more weeks. Anyway, I use it and is really worth its cost.
Tecplot is a good choice, but if you are looking for a free solution, Visit Visualization Tool (https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html) or Paraview (http://www.paraview.org/) are two free softwares that are capable of drawing streamlines.
Streamline plot is not possible using Surfer and GIS.
MatLab also does not give the the complete streamline profiles. Lot of drawbacks are there when using MatLab.
For data of flow field, you can use Tecplot or surfer
to draw the streamlines.
Hi I can see that few of you said that we can use surfer to plot streamlines of a flow in a open channel. I tried in Surfer and cannot see anything. Please give me some further information about how to draw streamlines in Surfer.
In Surfer you should have the stream function to plot streamlines (as iso-contours)
for tecplot you can use the velocity field and the streamline function of tecplot ( you can also use the stream function to plot streamlines as iso-contours)
Hi Liousa, I tried in surfer. There is no way to draw iso-contours with my knowledge. If you know how to plot streamlines in Surfer could you please give me some more details. It is a great help for me.
Thanks
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