Tim Gallagher wrote:
This is outside of what I usually do, so I may not be much help. But once you have the vorticity at all verticies, that should include the verticies on the cylinder surface.
Correct

How do you extract the surface? Is it a body fitted grid or an embedded boundary/levelset to mark it?
The geometry is a body fitted 3D cylinder unstructured mesh.
I have an id array for each vertex. The id at interior points is zero. Each boundary vertex has a non-zero value.
I set the id on the cylinder surface vertices  = -3
The extract the boundary like this.
1-extract surface
2-connectivity
3-threshold with id for the cylinder.
I would assume if you extract the surface in the pipeline downstream of the derivatives and interpolation filters, all of the variables would be available on the surface.
I see the cylinder surface and display shows the variables available (vorticity is there). I can see the surface vorticity contours and clearly see where flow separation occurs. I would like to see surface streaklines of the vorticity. When I click on "surface flow" PV crashes. Maybe I need to transform the vorticity vector to r,theta,z coordinates before doing "surface flow."
What do you think?
Stephen

Unless of course the surface is looking for cell data and not point data, in which case you would skip the second interpolation filter.

Tim

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    *From: *"Adriano Gagliardi" <[email protected]>
    *To: *"Andy Bauer" <[email protected]>,
    [email protected], "stephen wornom" <[email protected]>
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    On this subject, it should also be possible to use the Python
    Calculator to perform this function. Create a vector, U and obtain
    the curl of it by using: curl(U). I think your version of Python
    must have numpy available, though.

I tried both the suggestion of Time and Andy, both worked well. Now that I have the vorticity at all the vertices. What must I do to obtain the surface flow (vorticity) and surface vectors? The solution is for the Navier-Stokes equations for flow over a cylinder. I know how to extract the surface of the cylinder but how do I tell PV to use the vorticity and not the velocity field?
Hope my quest is clear,
Stephen

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    *Sent:* 02 June 2011 17:42
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    *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] PV 3.10.1 computing vorticity from
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    For computing vorticity, depending on the grid type you can also
    use the Gradient of Unstructured Datasets filter.  There is an
    option to compute vorticity for 3 component arrays (i.e.
    velocity).    It works on both point data and cell data and the
    output will be the same type of field data.  I'm about to change
    this filter so that it will work with all types of VTK grids.

    Andy

    On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Tim Gallagher
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        The output from the ComputeDerivatives is Cell Data. To do
        those things, you want to make it Point Data with another
        CellDataToPointData filter.

        The calculator would see it if you changed it from point data
        to cell data. But since you want to do other stuff with it,
        add the interpolation filter again and then it will appear
        with the rest of your point data.

        Tim

        ----- Original Message -----
        From: "Stephen Wornom" <[email protected]
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        Cc: "ParaView list" <[email protected]
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        Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2011 12:26:04 PM
        Subject: Re: [Paraview] PV 3.10.1 computing vorticity from
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        Tim Gallagher wrote:
        > 1. If it's cell centered data, apply the CellDataToPointData
        filter. If it's point data, skip this step
        > 2. Apply the ComputeDerivatives filter. Choose your velocity
        vector as the Vectors argument, set the Output Vector Type to
        Vorticity. I usually also set Output Tensor Type to nothing
        unless you need it.
        > 3. Hit apply.
        >
        Works correctly but what must I do to:
        1 make a vector or contour plot
        2 tracer plot or vorticity lines (like streamlines) plot?
        The choice for these is only the velocity field that I read.
        Calculator does not see the vorticity vector that was created.
        Thanks for you help,
        Stephen
        > Tim
        >
        > ----- Original Message -----
        > From: "Stephen Wornom" <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>>
        > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
        > Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:55:12 AM
        > Subject: [Paraview] PV 3.10.1 computing vorticity from
        vector field
        >
        > What are the steps to compute the vorticity vector from the
        velocity vector?
        > Stephen
        >
        >


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