Outputmanagers

Outputmanagers are used for monitoring and exporting results to variuous formats. They are defined globally:

*output, type=ensight, jobName=cps4job, name=myEnsightExport
    create=perNode,    elSet=all, fieldOutput=Displacement
    create=perElement, elSet=all, fieldOutput=Stress
    create=perElement, elSet=all, fieldOutput=Strain

Full example: testfiles/OutputManagers/test.inp

*material, name=VonMises, id=mat
210000, 0.3, 550, 1000, 200, 1400

*section, name=section1, thickness=1.0, material=mat, type=plane
all

*job, name=cps4job, domain=2d
*solver, solver=NIST, name=theSolver

*modelGenerator, generator=planeRectQuad, name=gen
x0=0, l=50
y0=0, h=100
elType=CPS4
nX=25
nY=50

*fieldOutput
create=perNode, name=Displacement, elSet=all, field=displacement, result=U,
create=perElement, name=Stress, elSet=all, result=stress, quadraturePoint=1
create=perElement, name=Strain, elSet=all, result=strain, quadraturePoint=1
create=perElement, name=Kappa, elSet=all, result=kappa, quadraturePoint=1
create=perNode, name=Displacement_Top, nSet=gen_top, field=displacement, result=U
create=perNode, name=Force_Bottom, nSet=gen_bottom, field=displacement, result=P, saveHistory=True, export=ReactionForce, f_export(x)='x[:,:,1]'

*output, type=ensight, name=myEnsightExport
create=perNode,    fieldOutput=Displacement
create=perElement, fieldOutput=Stress
create=perElement, fieldOutput=Strain
create=perElement, fieldOutput=Kappa
configuration, overwrite=yes

*output, type=monitor, name=myNodeSetMonitor
fieldOutput=Displacement_Top, f(x)='mean(x[:,1])'
fieldOutput=Force_Bottom, f(x)='sum(x[:,1])'

*output, type=plotAlongPath, name=myNodeSetPlotter
fieldOutput=Displacement_Top, label=Ualongtopsurface, f(x)='x[:,1]', nStages=5, export=True

*step, maxInc=1e-1, minInc=1e-8, maxNumInc=1000, maxIter=25, stepLength=100, solver=theSolver
options, category=Ensight, intermediateSaveInterval=2, minDTForOutput=20
options, category=NISTSolver, extrapolation=linear
dirichlet, name=1,          nSet=gen_leftBottom,    field=displacement, 2=0.0, 1=0.0
dirichlet, name=bottom,     nSet=gen_bottom,        field=displacement, 2=0
nodeforces, name=top,       nSet=gen_top,           field=displacement, 2=-1, f(t)=t**2

ensight - Export to Ensight Gold format

Options:

Option	Description
configuration	overwrite=y|n|yes|no|True|False|
create	The of the variabl; valid values: perNode|perElement
fieldOutput	Name of the result, defined on an elSet (also for perNode results!)
name	(Optional), default = the field output’s name
intermediateSaveInterval	Step option in category “Ensight”: save .case file every N increments

monitor - Monitor quantities in the terminal

Options:

Option	Description
fieldOutput	Name of the field output to be monitored
f(x)	(Optional), apply a model accessible function on the result

meshplot - Export to matplotlib

@author: Magdalena

Module meshplot divided into classes:

• Triangulation:

  creates triangles out of rectangles in order to use matplotlib plotting options

• Plotter:

  creates figures, axes, grid, labels

• Outputmanager:

  creats the plotting specific for the defined keyword lines

Options:

Option	Description
figure	figure number, (default=1)
axSpec	axis specification according to matplotlib syntax, (default=111)
create=perNode	result per node is plotted in a meshplot
create=perElement	result per element is plotted in a meshplot
create=meshOnly	plot the mesh only
create=xyData	2D Plot of results

fractureenergyintegrator - Determine the fracture energy

Options:

Option	Description
forceFieldOutput	fieldOutput for force (with time history)
displacementFieldOutput	fieldOutput for displacement (with time history)
fractureArea	(math expression for) area of fracture

plotalongpath - Plot a result along a line

Options:

Option	Description
fieldOutput	Name of the field output to be plotted (defined on a nodeSet/elementSet)
figure	(Optional), figure of the Plotter
axSpec	(Optional), axSpec (MATLAB syntax) in the figure
label	(Optional), label, standard=fieldOutputs name
f(x)	(Optional), apply math
normalize	(Optional), normalize peak to 1.0

conditionalstop - Conditional stop if expression becomes true

Options:

Option	Description
stop	model accessible function describing the stop condition

statusfile - Write the status of the simulation to a file

Options:

Option	Description
filename	(optional), custom filename for the status file; default: ‘jobname’.sta

meshdatatofile - Write the (generated) mesh data to a file

Options:

Option	Description
filename	(optional), name of the file to write to; default: ‘jobname’_mesh.inc

computetimemonitor - Print and write compute times per increment

Options:

Option	Description
export	(optional), filename if compute time should be written in a file