Ok. I get it.
Another question is, if I load an unstructured data that contains a vector 
variable (i.e., three components of velocity), is the nodal solution also a 
tuple of three values?

> On Jun 16, 2016, at 9:53 AM, John Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:56 PM, 张江 <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently doing the work about vtk unstructured data using libmesh. But 
> I found that vtk_io just provided some functions about mesh, and the point 
> data was not used.
> 
> That's right, VTKIO::read() currently reads the nodes and elements using a 
> vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader, but does not read solution values.
> 
> If you are doing something where you need to read in solution values, your 
> best bet is to use the Exodus file type instead of VTK, as it is more fully 
> supported.
> 
>  
> For example, in exodusII_io, there is a function copy_nodal_solution() which 
> can be called for further obtaining the node data values.
> So is there possibility that the same function can be implemented in vtk_io? 
> How to do this?
> 
> Yes it's possible, but you will have to implement it yourself after 
> researching the appropriate VTK APIs.  I'd start by making sure we can read 
> the solution files written by e.g. VTKIO(mesh).write_equation_systems 
> ("out.pvtu", equation_systems), which internally calls 
> VTKIO::write_nodal_data().  
>  
> -- 
> John

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