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

[Adriano Gagliardi]

I was intending on writing a FieldView reader, but I couldn't find any
documentation describing its formats. If anyone has it and wishes to pass it
on... 


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Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
Project Scientist
Computational Aerodynamics
Aircraft Research Association Ltd.
Manton Lane
Bedford

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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
On Behalf Of Bastil2001 at yahoo.de
Sent: 20 August 2009 21:11
To: A. Austen; 'ParaView'
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Suggested format for open unstructured CFD including
surface geometry?

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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