How can I create a segmented contour plot?

2018 7 30
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I solved a 1D moving boundary heat transfer problem and I want to recreate something like the graphs on the left in this image. Anyone know how I can do that?

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jonas
jonas 2018-7-30
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The left graphs are not good in my opinion. They should not have smooth colorbars, falsely indicating step-wise changes in temperature.
What type of data do you have? Did you try contourf?
Christine Lynch
Christine Lynch 2018-7-30
Hey thanks for your help!
Well it's a 1d ice cube, so I solved for the temperature at each discretization point
---------Temp ---------Temp ---------Temp ---------Temp
and so on. I tried contourf and got something that didn't make sense but I also don't use it very much so maybe I didn't know how to plot it properly?
Say at time step 1: I have 5 temperatures which I solved for in addition to the temperatures on the boundaries. I also have their positions in the x-axis. So what I did is I concatenated those vectors and did contourf on that but it didn't work :/
Z = [temps positions] contourf(Z)
I have attached what I got.

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jonas 2018-7-31
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Looks like you actually have a 2D data set but want to plot in 3D, which means you have to add an arbitrary 'depth'. This will give you a color-figure that is more difficult to interpret than a normal 2D-plot. Nevertheless, I've made a small example, with result attached.
%%Create data
x=0:180;
z=-sind(x);
figure;
subplot(1,3,1)
plot(x,z)
axis tight
%%Extrude to a width of 10 and plot
subplot(1,3,2)
y=1:10;
z2=repmat(z,numel(y),1);
contourf(x,y,z2)
subplot(1,3,3)
surf(x,y,z2,'edgecolor','none')
colorbar
Note: Surf and contourf will connect the data linearly. If you want a more correct shape of the temperature distribution, then you have to either solve for more points or apply another interpolation method prior to plotting (using e.g. meshgrid & griddata).

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Christine Lynch
Christine Lynch 2018-7-31
Thanks Jonas. I'll try this as well.
I actually did try the meshgrid method last night and because I don't entirely understand it, I ended up playing around with the inputs to that and contourf and finally was able to get the plot I wanted by making sure that the Z matrix was just a repeat of the temperature data.
I'll have to study those two functions to actually understand why that worked. I'll also try your method.
Thanks again for your help!!

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