[Paraview] Suggested format for open unstructured CFD including surface geometry?

[Bastil2001 at yahoo.de]

Ensight is quite a common format. However I would be very interested in
having a Fieldview-Reader for Paraview...

Regards BastiL

A. Austen schrieb:
> Hello all.
>
> I'm interested in using ParaView  to view unstructured CFD solutions. 
> I'm currently using a proprietary flow solver which outputs results in
> FieldView-Unstructured format.  The nice thing about that format is that
> it allows the inclusion of not just the solution grid, but also all the
> boundary surface geometry.
>
> However, I'm not crazy about being stuck with FieldView as my only
> option, so I'd like to write a translator to output an equivalent
> dataset in a more open format.  I've looked at CGNS, but it expects the
> user to link to external CAD files to provide the surface geometry.  Is
> there a recommended file format supported by VTK that is well-documented
> which includes the capability to include the surface geometry as a
> triangular surface mesh?  The geometric body definitions in my existing
> FieldView-Unstructured files consist of triangular surface meshes, a la
> FACET or STL, and in fact starts out as a FACET input into the flow
> solver.
>
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