| Author | Message | ||
     Mohammad Rahmani (mrahmani) New member Username: mrahmani Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2004 |
Dear developer, Why you don't use VTK for improving the output quality of FlexPDE graphs. Now VTK is the part of a lot of hightech scientific softwares. (We know FlexPDE can export to VTK toolbox.) FlexPDE suffers of its disabilities in post processing. Another suggestion: It would be great if FlexPDE could store the solution vectors and after convergence allow user to interact with data and visualize them through suitable menu commands. At the moment for each tiny change you have to run the code again. | ||
| Robert G. Nelson (rgnelson) Moderator Username: rgnelson Post Number: 243 Registered: 06-2003 |
It would be nice if we could make FlexPDE do all the things we can dream of. But reality intervenes - we simply don't have the staff to do everything. The primary focus of FlexPDE is solving partial differential equations systems. The highest priority in our allocation of effort is therefore given to projects relating to solving partial differential equations. Since visualization is available from many third-party sources, we do not consider it the top priority item. In fact, we already spend more time than we like on graphic-related issues. Have you considered complaining to the visualization people that their PDE capabilities are substandard? | ||
| Robert G. Nelson (rgnelson) Moderator Username: rgnelson Post Number: 244 Registered: 06-2003 |
By the way, your suggestion about saving solutions for post-processing is easy to do in FlexPDE: 1. Simply include a TRANSFER output of everything of interest at the end of your run. 2. copy the script to a new one with no variables or equations, and TRANSFERMESH the entire output of the previous run. 3. Add to this script any plots you want to see. Modify and rerun the post-process script in the way you have requested. | ||
| Mohammad Rahmani (mrahmani) New member Username: mrahmani Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2004 |
Dear Robert, If we propose something that is why we like FlexPDE and wish to help it to improve and improve and also because we use it. I can say FlexPDE is one of the easiest and most Flexible solver I have ever used and it help us to improve our understanding from physical phenomena in our research. Also I would like to thank you because of your prompt reply to all of our questions. Everybody can see this in the forum, any question has been replied promptly. By the way, we know, the visualization part is very important. If you could not represent your results in a nice way that is like this "you know everything but you can't speak". By suggesting to use visual modules like VTK, I want to emphasize to focus more on the mathematical aspect of the solver and use of available visualization modules. You know Matlab(R) improve itself by this way. Many modules in Matlab has been developed by others. Moreover VTK is in C language and it is very simple to add to FlexPDE code. The second suggestion was about postprocessing. I see it was very simple why not to include it in FlexPDE menus as a capability. Any way Thanks for all of your efforts and wish to eager for user feedbacks. Best regards Mohammad |