Bug in PV3FoamReader
 

Hi all

I may have found a bug in the paraFoam ParaView reader. I'm using OpenFoam 1.6.x with the packaged ParaView (3.6) from the ThirdParty directory.

When I visualise data from R (the Reynolds stress tensor) I believe ParaView picks up the wrong components.
The order of the 6-component array (symmTensorField) is intepreted by PV as Rxx Ryy Rzz Rxy Rxz Ryz, while the correct order in OpenFoam is Rxx Rxy Rxz Ryy Ryz Rzz.

For example: I'm trying to visualise the boundary conditions for the inlet patch, so I know the values in advance. And I know that R is something like this:

(<positive value> 0 <negative value> <positive value> 0 <positive value>)

This, in OpenFoam means: xx xy xz yy yz zz

When I try to visualise it with paraFoam, I see the correct values ONLY for xx. When i visualise yy i see all 0 values (like xy in the original data). When i visualise zz i see negative values (like xz in the original data) which is clearly wrong, since Rzz can't be negative. An so on...

Cheers,
Matteo

This should now be fixed in the 1.6.x version.

Thanks a lot!