[CIG-SHORT] VTK data files

[Tabrez Ali]

Brad

The number of faults was not the same in the two runs. So yeah I will 
make sure to keep the same faults (although with zero slip on some) in 
all the runs.

Thanks for the clarification.

Tabrez

Brad Aagaard wrote:
> 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
>