[Paraview] Broken Streamlines

[Andy Bauer]

Additionally, you can view the ReasonForTermination cell data output to see
why the streamlines terminated. Click on the ? button to see what the
values correspond to.


On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You may want to try playing with some of the advanced options for
> computing streamlines (click on the gear button in the upper right corner
> of the parameters for the filter).
>
> If that doesn't help, you may want to share your dataset so that we can
> investigate. Also, is this a 2D simulation? It may be that the streamline
> is going out of the plane of your grid and therefore terminating.
>
> --Andy
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Steytler, Louis Louw <
> steytle1 at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> When generating streamlines from a 3D computation, in some parts, the
>> streamlines appear broken. This is shown in the attached image (the arrows
>> point to the broken parts).
>>
>> Increasing the "Maximum Streamline Length" parameter did not help.
>>
>> Using the "Point to Cell Data" filter, and then generating streamlines on
>> the cell data did not help.
>>
>> Although in the image shown the broken parts are in an area of low
>> velocity, this happens in regions of high velocity as well. It also does
>> not seem to depend on grid resolution, as the broken parts show up all over.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced anything like this? Any ideas how to work around
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>>
>> Louis Steytler
>> Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> 1206 West Green Street
>> Urbana, Il 61801
>> steytle1 at illinois.edu
>>
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