Okay.
How can I set `rewrite_function_mesh` and `flush_output` from Python?

--Nico


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3 June 2013 14:17, Nico Schlömer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > since recently, I'm doing time-dependent computations where
> Navier--Stokes,
> > the heat equation, and Maxwell's  equations are coupled such that the
> > solution is composed of (u, p, theta, E, B), all of which are living  on
> the
> > same mesh. When storing the files, I use a separate file for each
> quantity
> > and I eventually get a directory full of
> >
> > velocity*.vtu
> > pressure*.vtu
> > temperature*.vtu
> > magnetic*.vtu
> > electric*.vtu
> >
> > The total amount of data is easily in the range of several GB.
> > This becomes a bottle neck for storage and post-processing, so I was
> > thinking about ways to reduce this.
> >
> > One thing that's immediately obvious is the fact that the mesh is stored
> > anew for each variable in each time step. When looking at the files, mesh
> > data accounts for about 70% of the data per file.
> > I now ask myself the question what a sensible backwards-compatible API
> would
> > look like to storing several arrays in one file. On the Python side, I
> could
> > imagine admitting a list of functions to the writer,
> >
> > File('myfile.pvd') << ([u, p, theta, E, B], t)
> >
> > (with an assertion that the functions indeed to live on the same mesh).
> I'm
> > not sure how (if?) this would translate to C++ though.
> >
> > Has anyone else ever run into similar issues or thought about this?
> >
>
> Use XDMF. It addresses a number of these issues, and can eventually be
> made (with feedback) to address all of them.
>
> Garth
>
> > Cheers,
> > Nico
> >
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