[Nek5000-users] *.fld files to ...

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Yes, I think a convert is the way to go. 
I will release at some point my old TecPlot convert however I need to fix a few things first. Unfortunately I am quite busy these days so it will take some time.

Stefan


On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:19 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:

> Hello Stefan,
> 
> Actually I would like to do that.  I am quite familiar with I/O and
> Tecplot and could make a writer that outputs their binary format files.
> This could be done two ways, outputting directly from NEK to Tecplot
> format files (and therefore not using the *.fld files for I/O) or
> something that takes the *.fld files and creates Tecplot format files.
> I tend to think the second is the best method as the issue of parallel
> I/O is sidestepped.  What is your opinion on this?
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:02 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> wrote: 
>> Yes you're right the export capabilities to TecPlot are quite limited (no multizone support, etc.). 
>> If you know the data layout of NEK it's quite easy write your own convert.
>> We did that for TecPlot some time ago.
>> 
>> Stefan 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:57 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>> 
>>> Thanks.  I had tried that.  This translator appears to be a fairly rough
>>> attempt to output data in Tecplot's format.  It at times writes out
>>> files that Tecplot cannot read.  In addition, if dealing with temporal
>>> data, there appears to be no way to write out the data at each time step
>>> to a single Tecplot file.  Therefore, one would need to do this
>>> (exporting through the menus) for every file at every time step.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Frank
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:34 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
>>> wrote:
>>>> Frank,
>>>> 
>>>> read your data into VisIt and use the export option.
>>>> I don't recall exactly what output formats they support but there are quite a few.
>>>> 
>>>> Stefan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:30 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone know of a way to translate *.fld files to a different format
>>>>> (perhaps such as HDF, CGNS, Plot3D etc.)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Frank
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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> Mechanics and Heat Transfer)
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