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

Mon Apr 19 11:59:12 CDT 2010

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:46 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
wrote:
> I first need to rewrite the part discovering the mesh topology. I don't like the way it's coded now. I
> I'll send you something hopefully by the end of this week.

Hi Stefan,

OK.  One question, is this writer something that is part of NEK or
something separate that transforms the *.fld files?

Cheers,
Frank

> 
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:41 PM, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:33 +0200, nek5000-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> > wrote:
> >> Frank,
> >> 
> >> If you're interested in my old converter we could work together to improve it. Just led me know.
> > 
> > Very interested.  If you dig it up I'll take a look at it immediately.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Frank 
> >> 
> >> 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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Technische Universität Wien (Technical University of Vienna)
Inst. f. Strömungsmechanik und Wärmeübertragung (Institute of Fluid
Mechanics and Heat Transfer)
Resselgasse 3
1040 Wien
Tel: +4315880132232
Fax: +4315880132299 
Cell:+436765203470
fmuldoo (skype)
http://tetra.fluid.tuwien.ac.at/fmuldoo/public_html/webpage/frank-muldoon.html