# Generate graph for Ahmed Body

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751 "2020-11-09T08:05:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author: ![Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mudit_mehta/32/4747_2.png) [@Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mudit_Mehta)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/1 "2020-11-09T08:05:55Z")

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Hello,  
I am a beginner in paraView and currently I am interested in the post-Processing for Ahmed Body Simulation.

I want to plot the similar graph for my simulation as attached below. Can someone please guide me how to do that?  
Here the x axis represents the stream wise direction, z represents the cross stream direction and velocity field is plotted. I am not aware how to do this. Can someone please guide.

Reference: Left most diagram is from Ahmed Body paper.  
Right most diagram is from [https://www.cfdsupport.com/ahmed-body-tcfd-benchmark.html](https://www.cfdsupport.com/ahmed-body-tcfd-benchmark.html)

Thank You

 ![2020-11-07_18-26](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7c4ecc6920836ea3f99bf472d7e03bb0fc290ea5.png)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/2 "2020-11-09T09:37:51Z")

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Looks like Slice filter + Glyph filter should for the trick.

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### Author: ![Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mudit_mehta/32/4747_2.png) [@Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mudit_Mehta)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/3 "2020-11-09T09:50:43Z")

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Sir i tried it already. The problem here is that the X-axis and Y-axis represents the stream-wise and span-wise direction is there and then velocity field is represented here. I certainly don’t know how they are doing this? I want to generate the third graph (colorful one) and i am not able to do that.  
Thank you

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/4 "2020-11-09T09:53:06Z")

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Please share your data.

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### Author: ![Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mudit_mehta/32/4747_2.png) [@Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mudit_Mehta)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/6 "2020-11-09T10:55:18Z")

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Sure Sir, Please find the drive link where i have uploaded the VTK file. Sorry for my late reply. The uploading took most of the time.

> **[Car\_500.zip](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EME8g6xLWnLyQ5zY7390vrtbhhqhblyx/view?usp=sharing)**
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> Google Drive file.

Thank You

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/7 "2020-11-09T11:28:38Z")

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[stream.pvsm](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/4cfzOLUo25l4mfpBV8HO5vjTthm.pvsm) (1.1 MB)

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a8fd269dcfccc5c7df1a624fc832037d36422248.png)

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### Author: ![Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mudit_mehta/32/4747_2.png) [@Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mudit_Mehta)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/8 "2020-11-09T12:22:27Z")

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Sir I was able to generate this but i want the exact same graph which was shown in the above picture (The colorful one).

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/9 "2020-11-09T13:11:54Z")

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You may want to try for yourself then.

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### Author: ![Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mudit_mehta/32/4747_2.png) [@Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mudit_Mehta)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/10 "2020-11-09T13:15:37Z")

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Okay Sir. Thank you so much

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### Author: ![Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mudit_mehta/32/4747_2.png) [@Mudit\_Mehta](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Mudit_Mehta)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/12 "2020-11-12T06:23:21Z")

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Hello Sir,

Could you please guide how did you do extract selection after creating slice?  
Thank You

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/generate-graph-for-ahmed-body/5751/13 "2020-11-12T08:34:35Z")

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I’m not extracting anything, but you would use Extract Selection for this task, after performing a selection of course.

You may want to read the ParaView guide:  
[https://www.paraview.org/paraview-guide/](https://www.paraview.org/paraview-guide/)

Or at least the getting started:  
[https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)
