Re: [Libmesh-users] how to print results in vector form...

[<va...@me...>]

Mostly i use Paraview to visualise results through VTK or EXODUS2
formats...but since the velocity field variables (U, V) are independent
scalars they cannot be used directly as ONE vector field variable!

any hints?

Vasilis


On Wed, January 7, 2009 02:16, Roy Stogner wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, va...@me... wrote:
>
>
>> Hello all & a happy new year...
>>
>>
>> Take for example the 13th one, where the primary field variables are
>> velocity components U, V and pressure P. After solution is achieved per
>> each time step then results are printed in GMV, VTK, etc...
>>
>> My question is: how to print those results in vector form (especially
>> the velocity components in one vector u={U, V, W} instead of seperate
>> scalar results)?
>
> GMV has facilities for taking D scalar variables and displaying them
> as components of an R^D vector; IIRC Tecplot does as well and I'd be
> surprised if Paraview etc. didn't.
>
> If there's some specific output format that requires those vector
> components to be associated a priori, there's probably nothing to be done
> about it except to add an API for doing so and modify the I/O class to
> handle it. ---
> Roy
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