Re: [Libmesh-devel] UCDIO

[Derek G. <fri...@gm...>]

Wow - that's a lot of caveats and gotchas.  You sure they don't want
to implement an Exodus reader?  It's open source and usually pretty
easy to implement.  Might be easier than you doing a full UCD
writer...

Derek

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 14, 2012, at 2:59 PM, "Paul T. Bauman" <ptb...@gm...> wrote:

> Anyone out there using UCDIO?
>
> We have a collaborator (not using libMesh) that needs to read in mesh and solution results from one of our libMesh applications using the UCD format (well, this is easiest route anyway). Currently, only the nodes and elements of the mesh are written out. I'm going to add two more categories: boundary id information and solution variables.
>
> The solution variable output is well defined by the UCD format, but there's no formal inclusion for boundary info. What's been done by the CUBIT and deal.ii folks is to write out the boundary element data as additional elements and make the material id for the boundary element correspond to the boundary id (note there are no duplicate nodes AFAICT). I'm going to follow this route. The only hiccup is that UCD doesn't understand 1D elements, so the boundary output is only well-defined for 3D meshes.
>
> My plan is to add a flag to the UCDIO constructor to enable boundary element output that defaults to false (not writing out boundary data) and kicks back an error for 2D meshes if true. This shouldn't break backward compatibility since 1. by default, boundary element data won't be written out and 2. we'll be adding the write_nodal_data method to UCDIO thereby enabling write_equation_systems so solution variables will only be written out then while only the mesh data will be written out with UCDIO::write. At any rate, I wanted to give a chance for anyone to scream before getting too far down the road.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Got visibility?
> Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like.
> Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite.
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y?
> http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html
> _______________________________________________
> Libmesh-devel mailing list
> Lib...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel