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ParaView will open the data as cell data. If you prefer point data, just apply the filter "Cell data to point data" provided in ParaView. | ParaView will open the data as cell data. If you prefer point data, just apply the filter "Cell data to point data" provided in ParaView. |
Revision as of 04:15, 24 March 2010
Saving selected field variables in selected surfaces in your computational domain into time-directories is a functionality provided in the official release of OpenFOAM. This is a small contribution that will help you use that functionality to generate animations. By using the Python script below, the files in the saved time-directories will be copied and renamed in a fashion that will allow ParaView to interpret the save-outs as a time series.
This was tested to work in OF1.5, using ParaView 3.3 and Python 2.4.3 in a Linux environment.
Usage
1. Modify the following to suite your case and add to your $FOAM_CASE/system/controlDict-file:
functions ( planes { type surfaces; interval 100; surfaceFormat vtk; fields ( U p ); surfaces ( xz { type plane; basePoint (1e-5 1e-5 1e-5); normalVector (0 1 0); triangulate false; } yz { type plane; basePoint (1e-5 1e-5 1e-5); normalVector (1 0 0); triangulate false; } ); } );
Upon runtime, the selected surfaces with sampled field variables will be saved in time-directories in the directory $FOAM_CASE/planes/ in vtk format.
2. Executing this Python script in the $FOAM_CASE/planes/ directory will conveniently copy the vtk-files in the time-directories to the $FOAM_CASE/planes/ directory and add a count-number to each file. By doing this, ParaView will recognize these data fields as time series.
3. Start ParaView and go to the $FOAM_CASE/planes/ directory. Now you can open each saved variable as a time series.
Hints: To save disk space and your precious time, you can change 'shutil.copy2' to 'os.rename' in the end of the script. Then, the vtk-files will be moved instead of copied. This would be particular useful if you download the time-directories from a cluster. But if you do this in your running simulation directory, you will have trouble to make longer animations at a later time.
ParaView will open the data as cell data. If you prefer point data, just apply the filter "Cell data to point data" provided in ParaView.