On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org> wrote: > Blaise A Bourdin <bour...@lsu.edu> writes: >> Does anybody knows of any open and widespread format supporting >> elements of order >2? I checked quickly, and according to their >> documentation it seems that none of exodusii, silo 4.7, or xdmf >> support them... > > No, I looked hard and everyone I know rolled their own, so that's what I > did (I only needed hexes). Did you write a whole new format? How about simply extendinf xdmf to add higher order element and send patches supporting these extensions to visit / paraview?
> How important is it to support hanging nodes? Is 2-1 refinement > sufficient? Can hanging nodes be handled through cell sets of various element types? Blaise -- Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Tel. +1 (225) 578 1612, Fax +1 (225) 578 4276 http://www.math.lsu.edu/~bourdin