[aspect-devel] output ASCII file for temperature field?

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

On 02/22/2016 06:42 AM, Nan Zhang wrote:
>
> I tried to output ascii format of temperature, instead of vtu, because I want
> to plot the global projection map of temperature with GMT. When I changed:
> ****************************************
> subsection Visualization
>      set Output format                 = txt
> ****************************************
> The running report error like:
> ****************************
> Line <111> of file <input string>:
>      The entry value
>          txt
>      for the entry named
>          Output format
>      does not match the given pattern
>          [Selection
> none|dx|ucd|gnuplot|povray|eps|gmv|tecplot|tecplot_binary|vtk|vtu|hdf5|svg|deal.II
> intermediate ]
> ****************************
>
> I guess that there is no txt output for temperature. I wonder how to output
> the ascii file of temperature.

Correct. Moreover, what would that even be? You'd need to define a file format 
that describes how exactly you want the output file to look.

The closest you can currently get is to use 'gnuplot' format. This is a plain 
text format.

Best
  W.


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