3.7.8.4.9. Contour Plots of Sweep Coefficient

The "ContourCoeff" class of subfigure is used to create a contour plot of unstructured 2D data for one or more force & moment or other database coefficients (such as a TriqFM load). The user must specify the XAxis and YAxis of the contour plot; in most applications these are angle of sidelsip and angle of attack, respectively. Sweep constraints for CarpetEqCons and CarpetTolCons are ignored.

S: dict

Dictionary of settings for ContourCoeff subfigure

Type: {"ContourCoeff"} | str

Subfigure type

ContourType: {"tricontourf"} | "tricontour" | "tripcolor"

Contour plot, filled, not filled, or triangulated

LineType: {"plot"} | "triplot"

Type for plotting CFD data points; "triplot" adds a triangulation of the CFD data

Header: {""} | str

Heading placed above subfigure (bold, italic)

Position: "t" | "c" | {"b"}

Vertical alignment of subfigure

Alignment: "left" | {"center"}

Horizontal alignment

Width: {0.5} | float

Width of subfigure as a fraction of page text width

FigWidth: {6.0} | float

Width of figure internally to Python; affects aspect ratio of figure and font size when integrated into report; decrease this parameter to make text appear larger in report

FigHeight: {4.5} | float

Similar to FigWidth and primarily used to set aspect ratio

Component: {"entire"} | str | list

Component or list of components to plot, must be name(s) of components defined in Config.xml

Coefficient: "CA" | "CY" | {"CN"} | str

Force or moment coefficient(s) to plot, any database value

XAxis: "beta" | str

Name of trajectory key or beta to use as x-axis

YAxis: "alpha" | str

Name of trajectory key or alpha to use as y-axis

ContourOptions: {{}} | dict

Dictionary of plotting options to pyplot.tricontour()

LineOptions: {{"color": "k", "marker": "o"}} | dict

Options for plotting actual values; default plots black dots

AxisEqual: {True} | False

If True, scale x and y axes to have same scale

ColorMap: {"jet"} | str

Name of color map to use