Just to make sure, we are talking about an unstructured mesh, right? -berk
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Bart Janssens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to get data from our finite element CFD solver into paraview, so I'd > like to write an exporter that writes in the format that is best suited and > well supported by existing paraview readers. It should be possible to read > large data sets in parallel, with good performance. > > Currently, I'm considering using the VTK file format with a .pvd xml at the > top > level, but I have some concerns: > - When importing data using EnSight, it names the zones correctly, i.e. if you > had a group of 2D cells called "inlet", it would show up in the tree and can > be filtered with ExtractBlock. Is it possible to assign names using the > VTK/pvd > format? > - The boundary zones would have to be separate blocks, as I understand. Is it > possible for them to reuse the point data of the volume mesh? In our solver, > the points are stored only once, and different zones can point to indices in > one big array of coordinates. > - When using multiple blocks as a result of parallelization, are points at the > boundaries between blocks duplicated? If not, how is this specified? > > Kind regards, > > Bart > > -- > Bart Janssens > Captain, Assistant > Royal Military Academy of Belgium > Department of Mechanical Engineering > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
