[CIG-SHORT] VTK data files

[Brad Aagaard]

On Monday 19 May 2008, Tabrez Ali wrote:
> The number of cohesive cells are not the same in the two runs.

In the statement above, if it unclear if the faults are the same and you are 
getting different numbers of cohesive cells (this would be a bug), or the 
faults are different and you are getting different numbers of cohesive cells 
(this is to be expected). 

If the faults are not the same, then the meshes will not be the same (topology 
of the mesh is different because there are different cohesive cells), and the 
output files will not have the same number of vertices. They should have the 
same number of cells.

> Also the number of cells do match in disp_surf_t*vtk files. I dont have 
> data over the entire domain but for the material blocks where I have
> data, there there is a mismatch in the number of points but again not in
> the number of cells.

If you have different faults, then the output for the ground surface and 
materials will have the same number of cells but different numbers of points.

If you want compatible meshes (vertices/cells) for two runs where one run does 
not have slip on a fault, then you should run both simulations with the same 
faults. Simply set the slip to zero for the case where you don't want slip.

Brad