On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Eric Bruning <eric.brun...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm calculating the gradient of a CellVariable using faceGrad:
> Efield = -phi.faceGrad
> and would like to plot the value of the magnitude of the vector as a scalar 
> field.
> 
> Is there a simple way to do this? I can get locations of each of the faces, 
> but they don't naturally reshape into something I can display as an image / 
> pcolormesh - or if they do I couldn't find how to do it in the docs or on a 
> mailing list.

FaceVariables can be tricky to visualize (actually vectors are easier than 
scalars, generally)

> An average of the values at each face for each cell of the underlying mesh 
> would be fine.

That basically describes a plot of phi.grad.mag. Let us know if that doesn't do 
what you want.


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