Hello,
What is the best way for me to know how good the mapping is between a fluid and solid mechanics coupling interface meshes? Is there an option to specify in the configuration file to make preCICE write some mapping diagnostics (e.g., percent mapped nodes/elements/area on both sides of the interface) at the beginning of an analysis? I did look at the doc here and did not really see any reference to this. Sorry if this was already discussed earlier and I overlooked it.
Thanks in advance,
Satish
Hi,
A great tool to analyse the mapping is the export functionality of preCICE.
Simply define <export:vtk /> in the configuration of the participants of interest.
They will then export all locally handled meshes for all time-windows.
This export includes the vertex positions, defined vertex data, and connectivity. Note that connectivity is only available for meshes where the mapping requires it (nearest neighbour mapping / scaled-consistent mappings).
You can then use these exports to analyse the data mapping to your hearts content.
Our long-time goal is to provide a data-mapping analysis tool for exactly this purpose as part of the ASTE repository. The usage would look like this:
- enable exporters
- run the simulation
- run the analysis script
- study the reports
The next release will also include a CSV exporter, which allows to easily post-process vertex information using your favourite spreadsheet editor or 
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Is there an option to specify in the configuration file to make preCICE write some mapping diagnostics (e.g., percent mapped nodes/elements/area on both sides of the interface) at the beginning of an analysis?
The nearest-neighbour mapping and the nearest-projection mapping already write some statistics of data mapping. This includes count, min, max, mean, and variance of the mapping distance between meshes.
For nearest-neighbour, this is the vertex-to-vertex distance and for nearest-projection, this is the vertex-to-projection-point distance.
Best
Frédéric
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