[vtkusers] Advecting a mesh

[David E DeMarle]

I suppose repeated application of probe (to get the vector field onto the
mesh) followed by warp (to deform the mesh by the vectors) won't be precise
or efficient enough?

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:

>   I have one mesh containing a vector field and another mesh that is an
> unstructured grid that I need to advect in the vector field.  That is, I
> want to trace where the points in the unstructured grid go in the vector
> field after some time T.
>
>  This advection is the same operation done by the stream tracer filter,
> except that I don't want to trace a line behind the points.  I just want to
> know where the points end up after the time I specify, and I can't have any
> points "die"if they leave the vector field or stop.  Is there a filter that
> advects points like this?
>
>  -Ken
>
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