Hi, Currently ParaView assumes that all field variables have the same interpolation/shape functions for point data. You would have to either throw out the higher order interpolation/shape functions or compute the dofs for them for the lower order field approximation.
Regards, Andy On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Teo Ioannis <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to ask if it is possible to display scalar, vector or tensor > values at distinct nodes in a finite element mesh. > > To make things clearer, there exist finite element formulations where not > all nodes have the same number of degrees of freedom. Consider the case of > a 20 node hexahedral element. In a so called u-p formulation all 20 nodes > have 3 displacement degrees of freedom (one for each x, y, z axis) but only > the 8 corner nodes have pressure degrees of freedom. > > For this particular case, i know how to display the vector of > displacements for all the nodes. But since only the corner nodes of each > hexahedron have pressure degrees of freedom how can I instruct paraview to > 'see' that only these nodes have the pressure scalar values and make the > correct color interpolation? > > Thank you very much. > Theofilos Manitaras > > _______________________________________________ > 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://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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