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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi all,</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I have written a couple of VTK reader classes for the CFD researchers here at NETL.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I build them into ParaView so we can view results without translating the data.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>One of the readers is for Fluent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fluent is a CFD code that is used quite a bit at NETL.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go to </FONT><A href="http://www.fluent.com/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000080 size=3>www.fluent.com</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> to learn more about Fluent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have tested the reader on Fluent 6.2 without any problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was told the number of Fluent users is roughly three thousand.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The other reader is for MFIX.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a CFD code that was written here at NETL.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go to </FONT><A href="http://www.mfix.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000080 size=3>www.mfix.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> to learn more about MFIX.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>MFIX has about 70 users.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>If you think one or both of these classes would be a useful addition to VTK let me know and I will clean them up however is necessary.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Thanks,</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Brian Dotson</FONT></P>
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