Hi David, Ah got it - thanks a lot! I was attempting to use write_discontinuous_equation_systems() and your help totally solved the problem. Appreciate it!
Best, Shawn On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:46 PM David Knezevic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:40 PM Yuxiang Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am using the L2_LAGRANGE elements for stress recovery, because the >> stress >> are not continuous over the domain. I noticed that my >> stress_system.solution->size() indicate that I have more than one value >> for >> each node and each stress component. This makes sense - I should have as >> many values as the number of elements connecting to that node. >> >> However, when I used write_equation_system() functionality and visualize >> in >> ParaView, only one value is shown per node. I suspect that it is an >> average >> of all element DOFs on this node but am not sure - could you please help >> share a hint? > > > I'm not sure what paraview plots in this case, but you can plot a > discontinuous solution by using write_discontinuous_exodusII, for example. > If I recall correctly, that will create a new mesh with disconnected > elements so that paraview will correctly plot it as discontinuous. The > downside of this is the mesh no longer matches the mesh that you solved on > (since the elements are disconnected) but that may be fine in your case. > > Best, > David > -- Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang, PhD [email protected] +1 (434) 284-0836 _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
