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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Hi All,<br>
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I am doing some ALE multiphase fluid computations utilizing a moving mesh, and I am reading an Exodus database into ParaView. The database contains many time steps and multiple blocks.<br>
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The database contains a 3D mesh, and the usual quantities such as velocities and pressure, and mesh displacements.<br>
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Using my CFD code I compute an integral quantity at each time step. This quantity is not written to the Exodus file, it is available in a separate text file. I would like to read this quantity into ParaView for each time step, and use it in a computation together
with point data.<br>
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Basically I am computing the centre of mass of an Exodus block, so that I could subtract that quantity from all the mesh displacements to get the mesh to be in the reference frame of a specific Exodus block. Because the centre of mass is a function of time
only (not of space), I am guessing I would either import this as field data or as point data by setting the variable's value to be the same at every node in the mesh for a specific time step. I would like to use the ParaView calculator to subtract the time
dependent data from the space and time dependent mesh displacements.<br>
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Any ideas?<br>
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Any advice would be very much appreciated!<br>
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Thanks very much,<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Louis Steytler<br>
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering<br>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
1206 West Green Street<br>
Urbana, Il 61801<br>
steytle1@illinois.edu </div>
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