[Nek5000-users] Post-Processing / VisiT

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What I normally do is to pick an isosurface of velocity
magnitude ~ 0, then plot pressure on that.

Presumably this could be coupled with a clip if you don't
want the end-wall (but I'm not certain how to do the clip).

Paul


On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am doing a LES in a turbine blade and specifically interested in
> the parameters (drag, pressure etc) on the blade . I have one time averaged
> blah0.f0000* field file from Nek  . I am trying to get a pressure plot on
> the blade, but not sure how to isolate the blade on VisiT. If it was inside
> nek, I can easily isolate the blade by using the cbc array. I tried to look
> into the subset feature in VisIT, but that wasn't very relevant to what I
> needed.
>
> I am wondering if there is a flag that I could associate with the blade in
> nek and then if VisiT could read it, I can then look at the pressure plot
> just at the blade.
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
>
>
> Regards
> Shriram
>