- Less looping when detecting lagrangian clouds and their fields.
- Avoid using Time::setTime() and IOobjectList in tight loops.
They both kill performance immensely.
ENH: provide a -noLagrangian option to foamToEnsight and foamToEnsightParts
for even more control.
- The new field needs initialization with a dimensioned<Type> not just
the dimensionSet.
- The new field was also incorrectly being registered, which could
cause issues later.
Old code:
Found 10990 time steps
Search for moving mesh ... no moving mesh detected.
Startup in 329.09 s
Updated:
Found 10990 time steps
Search for moving mesh ... no moving mesh detected.
Startup in 1.6 s
- Cause was checking "polyMesh/points" via an IOobject.
Short-circuit with a check for a polyMesh/ directory first.
Limit the check to the master-node as well to further reduce
load on the file-system.
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ENH: improve per-step conversion times for foamToEnsight.
Old code:
Converting 11001 time steps
Time [0] = 0 Wrote in 1.53 s
Time [1] = 1 Wrote in 1.52 s
...
Time [100] = 100 Elapsed time 205.35 s
Updated:
Converting 11001 time steps
Time [0] = 0 Wrote in 1.4 s
Time [1] = 1 Wrote in 0.07 s
...
Time [100] = 100 Elapsed time 42.4 s
- Speedup by hashing test results from the first conversion step
instead of checking each time.
Check data on all nodes to avoid problems with incomplete writes.
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BUG: moving mesh detection failed for foamToEnsightParts
- adjusted to agree with updated foamToEnsight
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Note:
- foamToEnsightParts (serial) still has about twice the throughput of
foamToEnsight.
- bugfix (empty patches), and added detection of steady-state
scheme.
Caveat: when called via execFlowFunctionObjects will always produce a
zero field, since the oldTime field is not available for this mode.
Extrapolate internal field to walls for post-processing.
Uses as new syntax for handling the naming of multiple fields.
The input fields are selected via a wordReList.
For example,
fields (U "(T|k|epsilon|omega)");
The names of the resulting output fields use placeholder tokens for
flexibility. For example,
result zeroGradient(@@);
The '@@' placeholder is replaced by the name of the input field.
Eg,
fields (U T);
result zeroGradient(@@);
-> zeroGradient(U), zeroGradient(T)
Or,
fields (U T);
result @@nearWall;
-> UnearWall, TnearWall
NOTE:
The function object will skip over fields that only have
processor, empty, zeroGradient patches. The operation does not
make much sense for these, and it avoids inadvertently
re-processing fields twice.
- implemented using magSqr() instead of sqr().
For scalar fields they are the same, but can be useful
if this function object is extended for more field types.
- Default is a width of 8 characters, but this can be extended up to 31
characters via the '-width' command-line option.
- Now use a similar structure as foamToEnsightParts for the masking.
This reduces the clutter within the directory, makes it easier to
selectively delete some time steps (using shell commands).
- Added in a "time" information data in each sub-directory to
make it possible to reconstruct the case file with an external
script.
- Conversion of cloud data should now also work in parallel
(may need more testing).
- Support binary output for cloud data.
- Better avoidance of illegal ensight variable names.
But still partially incomplete (due to patch fields).
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Example of NEW file structure:
EnSight/verticalChannel.case # case name
EnSight/geometry # for non-moving geometry
EnSight/data/ # time-varying data
EnSight/data/00000000/
EnSight/data/00000001/
...
Fields are stored by name within the data/********/ directories:
EnSight/data/00000001/time # human-readable time info
EnSight/data/00000001/U
EnSight/data/00000001/p
...
EnSight/data/00000001/geometry # for moving geometry
Clouds are stored at the next sub-directory level:
EnSight/data/00000001/lagrangian/<cloudName>/positions
EnSight/data/00000001/lagrangian/<cloudName>/U
...
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The old structure was significantly more cluttered:
EnSight/verticalChannel.case
EnSight/verticalChannel.0000.mesh
EnSight/verticalChannel.0001.p
EnSight/verticalChannel.0001.<cloudName>
EnSight/verticalChannel.0001.<cloudName>.U
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This was going wrong in a fair few cases where you would get regions which
were delimited by a combination of intersections with unnamed surfaces (wall)
and named surfaces (faceZone surface) but not with either of these sets
individually. This would cause there to be unvisited cells (zone = -2)
next to a visited cells but separated by a named surface only (and not an
unnamed surface). Fixed by using direct surface intersection in the removal
part. Related to #66.