[vtkusers] question about CFD data read by VTK

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "YR" == you ruobo <you_ruobo at yahoo.com> writes:

    YR> 1.I want to input my CFD result data(grid data file+ flow
    YR> property data file,Both in PLOT3D format ) into VTK for
    YR> visualization. Does vtkPLOT3DReader directly recogonize the
    YR> data format? If not, what kind of preprocessing work should I

AFAIK, the vtkPLOT3DReader works only with binary structured grid
data.  ASCII plot3d and unstructured grids do not work.  The reader
works fine otherwise.

    YR> do?  2. In the included example data files, are the postq.bin
    YR> and postxyz.bin standard Plot3d files that can be read
    YR> directly by CFD tool such as Tecplot? what is the contents of
    YR> postq.bin? Does it include quantities like
    YR> "rho,u,v,w,pressure" .

I have no idea if it works with Tecplot but I guess there is no reason
why not and yes, it does include rho, pressure etc.

prabhu