engine: add a small heated flow sample

Demonstrate temperature slices and signed face-average wall heat with cool air passing an isothermal bracket. Register the original CPU-rendered gallery thumbnail and document the coarse transient setup.

Part of #157.
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Christian Svensson authored and Irakli Kourtis committed 2026-10-17 14:08:50 -04:00
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| docs/media/examples/impact.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the FieldCraft window captured (`ui.capture`) with the solved impact sample (docs/examples.md) | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| docs/media/examples/ibeam.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the FieldCraft window captured (`ui.capture`) with the solved ibeam sample (docs/examples.md) | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| crates/ui-egui/thumbnails/ibeam.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the solved ibeam sample rendered by FieldCraft (`ui.render`, light theme), cropped to the model and scaled to 320 px wide (ImageMagick, 128-colour palette), the ibeam sample's thumbnail on the Start card | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| crates/ui-egui/thumbnails/heated-flow.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the heated-flow sample's temperature slice rendered directly at 320 × 213 by `fieldcraft-cli snapshot` with the CPU renderer; geometry is the original upright-bracket recipe | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| docs/media/examples/parts.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the FieldCraft window captured (`ui.capture`) with the parts sample (meshes only, nothing to solve) (docs/examples.md) | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| crates/ui-egui/thumbnails/flow-past.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the flow-past sample as docs/media/examples/flow-past.png shows it, rendered by FieldCraft (`ui.render`, light theme), cropped to the model and scaled to 320 px wide (ImageMagick, 128-colour palette), the flow-past sample's thumbnail on the Start card | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| crates/ui-egui/thumbnails/cantilever.png | FieldCraft contributors | Original: the cantilever sample as docs/media/examples/cantilever.png shows it, rendered by FieldCraft (`ui.render`, light theme), cropped to the model and scaled to 320 px wide (ImageMagick, 128-colour palette), the cantilever sample's thumbnail on the Start card | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
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@@ -1971,6 +1971,7 @@ pub const SAMPLE: &[Field] = &[choice(
("drop-test", "Drop test"),
("rubber-seal", "Rubber seal"),
("flow-past", "Flow past a bracket"),
("heated-flow", "Heated flow past a bracket"),
("heated-bracket", "Heated bracket"),
("bracket-hex", "Hex-meshed bracket"),
("crank-arm", "Bicycle crank arm"),
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use fieldcraft_geometry::Shape;
use serde_json::{Value, json};
mod heated_flow;
/// A sample the app offers (Help › Samples, the empty viewport, `file.sample`, `--sample NAME`).
pub struct Sample {
pub name: &'static str,
@@ -92,6 +94,14 @@ pub const SAMPLES: &[Sample] = &[
prepare: None,
script: |_| flow_past(),
},
Sample {
name: "heated-flow",
label: "Heated Flow Past a Bracket",
about: "Cool air passing an 80 °C bracket: temperature slices and signed wall heat, a small transient demonstration",
design: Some(UPRIGHT_BRACKET),
prepare: None,
script: heated_flow::script,
},
Sample {
name: "heated-bracket",
label: "Heated Bracket",
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//! A small transient heated-flow demonstration using the original upright bracket.
//! Air at 20 °C passes an 80 °C bracket; no buoyancy or conjugate solid conduction.
use fieldcraft_geometry::Shape;
use serde_json::{Value, json};
pub(super) fn script(bodies: &[Shape]) -> Value {
let walls: Vec<Value> = bodies
.iter()
.filter(|b| b.name == "Bracket")
.flat_map(|b| {
b.faces().iter().map(move |f| {
json!({
"face": {"body": b.name, "face": f.name},
"condition": {"type": "temperature", "value": 80.0}
})
})
})
.collect();
let [density, viscosity] = super::AIR;
json!([
{"command": "model.units", "params": {"system": "mm-t-s-N-MPa"}},
{"command": "model.material.create", "params": {"name": "Air", "density": density,
"fluid": {"type": "newtonian", "viscosity": viscosity},
"thermal": {"conductivity": 0.026, "specific_heat": 1.005e9}}},
{"command": "model.fluid_domain.create", "params": {
"name": "WarmAir", "material": "Air", "min": [-30, -20, 0], "max": [100, 60, 70], "spacing": 5,
"faces": {"x_min": {"type": "velocity", "velocity": [1, 0, 0]}, "x_max": {"type": "pressure", "pressure": 0},
"y_min": {"type": "slip"}, "y_max": {"type": "slip"}, "z_min": {"type": "wall"}, "z_max": {"type": "slip"}},
"obstacles": ["Bracket"], "initial_velocity": [1, 0, 0],
"thermal": {"initial_temperature": 20, "surfaces": walls,
"faces": {"x_min": {"type": "temperature", "value": 20}}}
}},
{"command": "model.step.create", "params": {"name": "HeatedFlow", "procedure": {
"type": "fluid", "domain": "WarmAir", "steps": 180, "frames": 6
}}}
])
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
#[test]
fn heated_flow_sample_solves_and_exposes_temperature_and_wall_heat() {
let mut s = crate::Session::default();
s.execute("file.sample", &json!({"name": "heated-flow"})).unwrap();
s.execute("solve.fluid", &json!({"backend": "cpu"})).unwrap();
let report = s.execute("results.slice", &json!({"field": "temperature"})).unwrap();
let max = report["contour"]["range"]["max"]["value"].as_f64().unwrap();
let min = report["contour"]["range"]["min"]["value"].as_f64().unwrap();
assert!(max > 20.1 && max <= 80.01 && min >= 19.99, "{report}");
let report = s.execute("results.surface", &json!({"field": "wall_heat_flux"})).unwrap();
assert_eq!(report["contour"]["unit"], "mW/mm²");
assert!(report["wall_heat"]["faces"].as_array().unwrap().iter().any(|f| f["power"].as_f64().unwrap_or(0.0) < 0.0));
assert_eq!(report["frames"].as_array().unwrap().len(), 7);
}
}
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ const THUMBNAILS: &[(&str, &[u8])] = &[
("heated-bracket", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/heated-bracket.png")),
("bracket-hex", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/bracket-hex.png")),
("flow-past", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/flow-past.png")),
("heated-flow", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/heated-flow.png")),
("cantilever", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/cantilever.png")),
("impact", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/impact.png")),
("parts", include_bytes!("../thumbnails/parts.png")),
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ press **Solve** (`solve.run`). Each opens fully defined — geometry, mesh, mate
conditions, loads and steps — in mm, t, s, N and MPa, and opens and solves within half a minute. The geometry is our
own: SolidCraft scripts run when the sample opens (a recipe from [`tests/corpus`](../tests/corpus)
or one written in `crates/engine/src/sample.rs`). Each sample has a test in
`crates/engine/src/sample.rs` that opens it, checks it clean, solves it and holds its result to
`crates/engine/src/sample.rs` or its modules that opens it, checks it clean, solves it and holds its result to
the check given below.
## Drop test (`drop-test`)
@@ -200,3 +200,22 @@ SolidCraft geometry with persistent face names, swept all-hex (hex8 of 4 mm, inc
clamped at `F2:start` and loaded with 1000 N down through a kinematic coupling to `F2:top`.
**Look at:** the bending stress in the flanges, highest at the clamp; the tip moves 0.18 mm down
(beam theory with shear: 0.184 mm).
## Heated flow past a bracket (`heated-flow`)
Air at 20 °C enters at 1 mm/s and passes the original upright bracket, whose faces are
held at 80 °C. The 130 × 80 × 70 mm domain has 5 mm cells (5,824 cells), a pressure outlet,
slip sides and top, and a no-slip floor. There are 180 steps and six saved output intervals,
plus the initial frame. Open `file.sample {"name":"heated-flow"}` and solve on CPU or GPU.
The slow prescribed flow keeps this coarse lattice away from its small-relaxation-time limit.
**Look at:** Results → Temperature, or `results.slice {"field":"temperature"}`, for the
warming air. `results.surface {"field":"wall_heat_flux"}` shows heat received by each
bracket face per area: the hot wall heating the air is negative. In this model's mm–tonne–second
units the wall flux is mW/mm². The initial frame has no recorded wall heat and stays uncoloured.
**Check:** the fluid warms above its inlet temperature while staying below the held wall
temperature (with a small numerical tolerance); recorded hot walls give heat to the fluid.
This coarse, short transient is a quick display demonstration, not a converged convection
benchmark. It has neither buoyancy nor solid heat conduction. The sample is isolated in
`crates/engine/src/sample/heated_flow.rs` and its gallery registration.