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Tracer Particle Monitor*

When you create a Tracer Particle Generator, Virtualwind will automatically attach a Tracer Particle Monitor to it – you do not have to explicitly create this type of Monitor from the main menu. As shown below, the settings of the Monitor can be found in the Monitors item of the particular Tracer Particle Generator in the entity tree (unlike all other entities which are in the Monitors item of the Atmospheric Conditions).


Virtualwind is able to not only animate the position of the released particles in the Domain but also use the color of the particles to indicate many other quantities. These quantities are listed in the Model item of the Tracer Particle Monitor (as can be seen from the above figure) and you can choose any of them that you plan to visualize later. These quantities include those related to fluid properties such as pressure, velocity, wind speed, vorticity, and the species mass fraction (smoke property) and those of the particles such as particle displacement, particle velocity, particle flight time, and particle XY magnitude.


*Available only to customers who have purchased this module. Contact Virtualwind for more information.