- Eg, with surface writers now in surfMesh, there are fewer libraries
depending on conversion and sampling.
COMP: regularize linkage ordering and avoid some implicit linkage (#1238)
- this functionality was originally added to allow sampling of volume
fields onto a surface in order to perform calculations on them.
However, the sampling framework essentially mirrored the
sampledSurface, but was less complete.
It is now possible to store sampled surfaces on a registry and
do calculation with their fields. This is the preferred method,
and thus removing the surfMeshSample duplicate code.
- The writers have changed from being a generic state-less set of
routines to more properly conforming to the normal notion of a writer.
These changes allow us to combine output fields (eg, in a single
VTK/vtp file for each timestep).
Parallel data reduction and any associated bookkeeping is now part
of the surface writers.
This improves their re-usability and avoids unnecessary
and premature data reduction at the sampling stage.
It is now possible to have different output formats on a per-surface
basis.
- A new feature of the surface sampling is the ability to "store" the
sampled surfaces and fields onto a registry for reuse by other
function objects.
Additionally, the "store" can be triggered at the execution phase
as well
- changed ensightOutput from a class solely comprising static methods to
a namespace and added in sub-namespaces Detail and Serial.
This makes it easier to "mix-in" functions at different levels.
Refactored and combined some serial/parallel code where possible.
The general ensightOutput namespace has now shifted to be in the
fileFormats lib, while leaving volField outputs in the conversion lib
and cloud outputs in the lagrangian-intermediate lib.
The ensightCloud namespace is now simply folded into the new
ensightOutput namespace.
These changes clean up some code, reduce fragmentation and
duplication and removes the previous libconversion dependency for
sampling.
- use int for ensight nTypes constexpr
Note: issue #1176 is unaffected except for the change in file name:
ensightOutputTemplates.C -> ensightOutputVolFieldTemplates.C
- make hasFaceId a top-level virtual method and remove keepIds
equivalent from sampledTriSurfaceMesh. This makes the property
available without casting.
- New sampling type 'none'.
Can be used to temporarily disable a sampling surface definition,
or to provide boilerplate for overwriting later.
- avoid duplicate code by relocating cellZone selection and bounding box
sub-selection into cuttingPlane and cuttingSurfaceBaseSelection.
Allows reuse by inherited classes (sampledPlane, surfMeshSamplePlane).
- takes two general actions:
1. orient edge in canonical direction (positive gradient) and detect
any edge intersection.
2. edge intersection alpha (0-1)
- refactor into a cuttingSurfaceBase intermediate class with the
actions as templated parameters rather than function pointers. This
allows the use of lambda functions with captures from the caller.
- improvement documentation for surface sampling.
- can now specify alternative sampling scheme for obtaining the
face values instead of just using the "cell" value. For example,
sampleScheme cellPoint;
This can be useful for cases when the surface is close to a boundary
cell and there are large gradients in the sampled field.
- distanceSurface now handles non-closed surfaces more robustly.
Unknown regions (not inside or outside) are marked internally and
excluded from consideration. This allows use of 'signed' surfaces
where not previously possible.
- extend the sampling concept to include surfMeshes and surfFields
for storage.
- Note the createOnRead switch in surfMeshSamplers can be desirable in
some situations to force creation of the surface faces within the
constructor.
- use surfFaces() to return the templated list of faces.
This frees up the method 'faces()' to be used as a virtual method,
which will be needed at a later stage.
- Avoids the need for the 'OutputFilterFunctionObject' wrapper
- Time-control for execution and writing is now provided by the
'timeControlFunctionObject' which instantiates the processing
'functionObject' and controls its operation.
- Alternative time-control functionObjects can now be written and
selected at run-time without the need to compile wrapped version of
EVERY existing functionObject which would have been required in the
old structure.
- The separation of 'execute' and 'write' functions is now formalized in the
'functionObject' base-class and all derived classes implement the
two functions.
- Unnecessary implementations of functions with appropriate defaults
in the 'functionObject' base-class have been removed reducing
clutter and simplifying implementation of new functionObjects.
- The 'coded' 'functionObject' has also been updated, simplified and tested.
- Further simplification is now possible by creating some general
intermediate classes derived from 'functionObject'.
The deprecated non-const tmp functionality is now on the compiler switch
NON_CONST_TMP which can be enabled by adding -DNON_CONST_TMP to EXE_INC
in the Make/options file. However, it is recommended to upgrade all
code to the new safer tmp by using the '.ref()' member function rather
than the non-const '()' dereference operator when non-const access to
the temporary object is required.
Please report any problems on Mantis.
Henry G. Weller
CFD Direct.
- checkMesh has option to write faceSets or (outside of) cellSets as
sampledSurface format. It automatically reconstructs the set on the master
and writes it to the postProcessing folder (as any sampledSurface). E.g.
mpirun -np 6 checkMesh -allTopology -allGeometry -writeSets vtk -parallel
- fixed order writing of symmTensor in Ensight writers
- redistributePar to have almost (complete) functionality of decomposePar+reconstructPar
- low-level distributed Field mapping
- support for mapping surfaceFields (including flipping faces)
- support for decomposing/reconstructing refinement data
- New boundaryData surface writer
- Moved templated code into separate files
- Output filenames written to functionObjectState dictionary
- Ensight surface writer now supports a 'collate times' option [mattijs]
- Nastran surface writer updated based on user feedback
- easier (more logical) when adding a new writer
ENH: add surface field writer for 'starcd' format
- creates *.usr files, which can be read in proSTAR with the 'getuser'
command, but which can also be parsed directly since the format is
extremely primitive
