TECPLOT
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Basic Information
File-Type
tecplot
File-Form
FORMATTED
Version
9*
Description-Date
July 2004
Significance of the File
contains grid and optionally the values of physical measures and is the standard format for the visualization software Tecplot.
File-Contents (in Catchwords)
- title
- Variables, meaning the names of the coordinates and the physical measures
- one or more zones; each zone can e.g. contain the data of one time step. Zones may refer either to finite differences grids or to finite elements grids. The files used in the BAW-DH refer to FE grids and contain:
- zone name
- number of nodes and number of elements,
way of sorting (FEPOINT = FE grid, node sorted, meaning in a row all variables of a node) and element types - node coordinates and the values of the physical measures at the nodes
- connectivity table
Chapter 4 of the Tecplot User Manual (s. $PROGHOME/examples/Tecplot/manuals/tecplot_um.pdf) contains a complete description of the file format including e.g. text strings, geometric elements, labels and auxiliary data.
Programs using this Type of File
Example-File
$PROGHOME/examples/Tecplot/*plt.dat
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