Reply To: Extract velocity, pressure, and density data on lattices without interpolation
Writing point data for each point with CSVwriter, then you have to perform the iteration over the points yourself. It will be slow because of a lack of parallelization. Cf. e.g. examples laminar/poiseuille2d where this is done for a plot-over-line with GnuplotWriter (it works similar + creates a Gnuplot plot).
Vtm files that contain point coordinates + functor data are written by the SuperVtmWriter – this is originally intended for Paraview visualization but you can as well use the datafiles for your own purpose. It includes a parallelized iteration over the lattice points. This is what I’d recommend to use. It’s simpler to run a postprocessing script over the vtm files than to create the output completely on your own.
Since it is made for HPC application, the design for storing the data is rather complex. Well, in the end it all breaks down to arrays. Each BlockLattice holds data (at least provides an interface) to the nodes in that cuboid. If you’re eager, you can have a deep look into what this class does…