Hi John,

Ah yes! Thank you so much for your help. :)

Shawn

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:21 AM John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:37 AM Yuxiang Wang <yw...@virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Sorry for the spam.
>>
>> In system_of_equations_ex6.C, the example recognized which boundary is
>> which by knowing the values for MIN_Z is 0, MIN_Y is 1, etc. to apply all
>> sorts of boundary conditions. I wonder could anyone share with me a
>> reference to find out how would I know which number is which boundary? I
>> tried to export the mesh into EXO & UNV format, inspected with ParaView
>> but
>> the boundary id does not really get mentioned in those files.
>>
>
> In Paraview, you can view the boundary ids by going in the Search box at
> the top of the Properties Pane and typing "set". This should bring up a
> list of sideset/nodeset ids that you can then turn on/off to view the
> different ones which are available.
>
> If you have an Exodus file, you can dump it to ASCII by running the
> $LIBMESH_DIR/bin/ncdump utility that gets installed by libMesh. In the
> ASCII output, you will see entries like the following:
>
> elem_ss1 = 1, 3 ;
> side_ss1 = 3, 3 ;
>
> which tells you that Elems 1 and 3 both have side 3 in sideset 1. This
> might also be helpful if you are just trying to figure out which sideset
> ids are available.
>
> --
> John
>


-- 
Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang, PhD
yw...@virginia.edu
+1 (434) 284-0836

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