[hani]

Has anyone done run-time probing using faceSets? (c.f. probing in oodles) Or can someone give me a hint on how to do it?

I want to use faceSets to output the results at those 'internal patches' during the computation. The results on the faceSets should be output similar to how the external patches are output.

The main reasons why I want to do this are that I am mostly interested in the results at particular cuts of the domain, and that the disk won't allow the whole field to be written for all the needed timesteps. It would also be a nice tool to see how the solution propagates while making the computations. It would also save lots of time when post-processing in for instance Ensight, where I would then be able to read only the most interesting parts of the domain.

I got the following proposition By Mattijs Janssens on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 10:35 am:

- you can make them (faceSets) into external patches using the splitMesh utility (discussed before)

- create a cellSet from the cells on one/both sides of the faceSet using the cellSet utility. Visualize the results on the cells with foamToVTK

As I understand it, these propositions require that the whole filed is saved each timestep, which is impossible for large computations that run for many timesteps.

Håkan.