Tuesday, 14 March 2017


Peter & Freddie,

I believe the mesh export issue from Pointwise using the PyFR exporter has been 
resolved in PyFR 1.6.  I still seem to have issues running using the OpenCL 
backend which persistently complains about an invalid workgroup size.  It use 
to work at one point, but something has changed in the intervening releases 
which is causing problems for me at least.  I’ve tried adjusting the values per 
Freddie’s guidance to no avail.  He also suggested a tool that might be helpful 
in determining the appropriate workgroup size needed for my card.  
Unfortunately that tool seems to be NVIDIA card specific requiring installation 
of NVIDIA software that won’t run on my machine.  I’m using an AMD card 
instead, and the tool won’t compile due to missing dependencies.  It’s not a 
pressing matter, but just something that I thought you both might want to be 
aware of.

Nikki,

I’ve looked over your incompressible 2d-cylinder case, and I was wondering if 
you could elaborate a bit, or point me to some reference, about how you came up 
with the source terms you’re using in the input file.  It also appears that the 
[soln-plugin-pseudostats] is used in place of the [soln-plugin-residual] 
namelist for incompressible cases—is that right?  Does the 
[soln-plugin-fluidforce] namelist still work for the ac-navier-stokes solver?  
Another question if you don’t mind—what is this artificial compressibility 
factor, ac-zeta and why is value of 6.0 used?  Oh, and what does the ac prefix 
stand for?  Thanks!

I think it would be interesting to see how coarse of a higher-order mesh could 
be made for this case while increasing the polynomial solution basis such that 
you essentially recover the linear mesh spacing in each element, and see if you 
could capture one or more vortices within a single element with any noticeable 
diffusion over time.

Best Regards,



Zach Davis
Pointwise®, Inc.
Sr. Engineer, Sales & Marketing
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Fort Worth, TX 76104-1107

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