AutomatedFarfield

class AutomatedFarfield

Bases: _FarfieldAllowingEnclosedEntities

Settings for automatic farfield volume zone generation.

Example

>>> fl.AutomatedFarfield(name="Farfield", method="auto")

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Attributes

domain_type: Literal['half_body_positive_y', 'half_body_negative_y', 'full_body'], optional

- half_body_positive_y: Trim to a half-model by slicing with the global Y=0 plane; keep the ‘+y’ side for meshing and simulation. - half_body_negative_y: Trim to a half-model by slicing with the global Y=0 plane; keep the ‘-y’ side for meshing and simulation. - full_body: Keep the full body for meshing and simulation without attempting to add symmetry planes. Warning: When using AutomatedFarfield or UserDefinedFarfield, setting domain_type overrides automatic symmetry plane detection.

Default:

None

enclosed_entities: EntityList[Surface, Cylinder, AxisymmetricBody, Sphere, CustomVolume], optional

The surfaces/surface groups that are the interior boundaries of the farfield zone when defining custom volumes. - Only allowed when using one or more `CustomZone`(s) to define volume zone(s) in meshing parameters - Cylinder, AxisymmetricBody, Sphere entities must be associated with `RotationVolume`(s)

Default:

None

name: str, optional

Default:

'Automated Farfield'

relative_size: float

Radius of the far-field (semi)sphere/cylinder relative to the max dimension of the geometry bounding box.

Default:

50.0

Properties

farfield

Returns the farfield boundary surface.

symmetry_plane: GhostSurface

Returns the symmetry plane boundary surface.

symmetry_planes

Returns the symmetry plane boundary surface(s).

Additional Constructors

classmethod from_file(filename)

Loads a Flow360BaseModel from .json, or .yaml file.

Parameters:

filename (str) – Full path to the .yaml or .json file to load the Flow360BaseModel from.

Returns:

An instance of the component class calling load.

Return type:

Flow360BaseModel

Example

>>> params = Flow360BaseModel.from_file(filename='folder/sim.json') 

Methods

help(methods=False)

Prints message describing the fields and methods of a Flow360BaseModel.

Parameters:

methods (bool = False) – Whether to also print out information about object’s methods.

Return type:

None

Example

>>> params.help(methods=True) 

to_file(filename, **kwargs)

Exports Flow360BaseModel instance to .json or .yaml file

Parameters:

filename (str) – Full path to the .json or .yaml or file to save the Flow360BaseModel to.

Return type:

None

Example

>>> params.to_file(filename='folder/flow360.json')