Reg. Tonatiuh post processing

[Rishav]

Dear sir,

I am new to optical simulation, yet I found Tonatiuh very user-friendly. But I am facing difficulty in post processing of .dat file.

It would be really helpful for me if you can provide me with Mathematica code that is applicable for post-processing of heat flux at the wall of cavity receiver instead of only aperture for solar power tower.

[Rishav]

Can anybody help me with a Mathematica post-processing code for binary data files that determines heat flux distribution over tubes of a cylindrical cavity receiver?

[Rishav]

Can anyone explain  the statement :

transform01[{id_, x_, y_, z_, side_}] := {x, z}

Does {x, z} represent the receiver plane?

On Friday, March 15, 2024 at 4:59:07 AM UTC+5:30 Rishav wrote:

[Manuel J. Blanco]

transform01 is transforming each list of five elements provided to it in a list of two elements, {x, z}. Thus, is providing you with 2D points with coordinates values {x, z}. What this actually means depends on the context. If {x, y, z} are global coordinates, then {x.z} is the projection of the point on the x-z plane, which if I remember correctly in Tonatiuh is the horizontal plane. If {x, y, z} are local coordinates, again {x,z]) is the projection of the point on the "local" x-z plane. Typically if you are analyzing a flat surface, and it is oriented parallel to any of the planes of references either on the global coordinate system or in a local coordinate system, you use this transformation to get red of the coordinate that is constant for all points.

I hope this helps. If you want a more precise answer, please, provide the rest of the code.

Best regards,