**process make_field

Description

This post is used to create field variables from some other source than directly from a results database. For example, a uniform temperature can be imposed (satisfying post computations requiring that variable be present), or for doing analytical solutions or graphing over a mesh body.

Syntax

The following syntax summary is available:

**process make_field \(~\,\) *var name1 [ *single_value val ] [ *single_field scale-val  fname ] [ *constant_values ] \(~\,~\,\) time#  val# \(~\,~\,\) … [ *constant_field ] \(~\,~\,\) time#  scale-val#  fname# \(~\,~\,\) …

Multiple instances of *constant_values and *constant_field can be used to mix uniform fields and fields loaded in from an external file.

Example

There are examples of this process in the tests plast3.inp and hot_spot.inp under test/Post_test/INP. An excerpt of the hot_spot.inp test case follows, and is a good example of how one can use FEA post processors as a general visualization tool for spatial functions. The data for that test is generated in a small Perl script hot_spot.pl.

****post_processing
 ***data_source mesh_only
  **format Z7
  **open hot_spot.geof
  **maps  0. 1. 2. 3.
 ***local_post_processing
  **process make_field
   *var X
   *constant_values
     0.    0.2
   *constant_field
     1.    2.    hot_spot.dat
     3.    1.    hot_spot.dat