**build_parallel_boundary_files

Description

This mesh operation is used to make data files for use with boundary conditions allowing boundary set binary files to be used to apply variable conditions in a parallel computation. Normally such files are supplied at as constant values for element faces, and the binary files must be split in order to represent faces existing on parallel computation sub-domains.

Please see the ***pressure command for further details for the file loading.

Syntax

The command has the following syntax:

**build_parallel_boundary_files \(~\,\) *file file-name \(~\,\) *bset bset-name

*file

specifies the input file (problem) name. The output file names will look like: file-name.005 for the output map 5.

*bset

the name of the boundary set where these BC values apply. This set must be ordered exactly the same as the stored file data.

Example

The first snippet is the mesher applied to a set of binary files in order to split them up correctly for a parallel computation:

****mesher
  ***mesh press_calc
   **open meshfile.geof
     **build_parallel_param_files
     *file thermal_calc.ctnod
     *card 200  % total number to process
   **build_parallel_boundary_files
     *file internal_pressure.bin external_pressure.bin shell_pressure.bin
     *bset internal_pressure     external_pressure     shell_pressure
****return