[Paraview] OpenFOAM reader incompatibility with temporal intermpolator

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Really? Particle tracer never works for me without temporal
interpolator (I only get a polygonal mesh with 0 cells/points). How do
you make the interpolation work and how do you specify the timestep
interval?

Takuya

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] OpenFOAM reader incompatibility with temporal intermpolator
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:24:44 -0400

> Hi Takuya,
> 
> Out of curiosity, why would the lack of temporal interpolator make
> path lines impractical? The particle tracer does its own interpolation
> between timesteps.
> 
> -berk
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Takuya OSHIMA
> <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just came across Dave DeMarle's ParaView course slides presented
> > at the 6th OpenFOAM Workshop.
> > http://www.openfoamworkshop.org/6th_OpenFOAM_Workshop_2011/Program/Training/deMarle_slides.pdf
> >
> > In the 11th slide (Temporal Processing) I see that the "Interpolation
> > between time steps" is grayed out, which I suspect was done so because
> > the temporal interpolator did not interpolate the OpenFOAM dataset
> > (which made path lines unpractical as well).  This is a known
> > problem that has fixes involving both the OpenFOAM reader and the
> > temporal interpolator. The fix to the former (which I backported from
> > my own development version) is attached in this mail and the latter
> > has already been filed as a bug with a patch:
> > http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=12151
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Takuya
> >
> > Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> > Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> > 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
> >
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