6 Confem File Types

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Most of the examples of this textbook are computed executing one of the above listed modules. Corresponding data are and are organized with a leading name according to a scheme

whereby <chapter> and <example> have to be replaced with their actual numbers and <name> is a prefix for files belonging to a particular example problem.

The data of a particular problem are given with plain ASCII-files with a naming scheme

They should be editable with basic editors on all systems, but should remain as plain ASCII-files after editing. The types for the problem data are as follows:

<type>     

 

user defined input

module written output

     

input  

Model data

mandatory

-

opt

Options for written files

optional

-

plt

Scaling factors for plots

optional

-

protocol

Protocol of computation

-

always

elemout

Results for element integration points

-

always

elemout_

Results for element integration points – alternative format

-

always

nodeout

Results for nodes

-

always

nodeout_

Results for nodes – alternative format

-

always

timeout

Results for every time increment for

 

selected nodes

-

if opt exists



A file <name>.pkl written by ConFem.py contains restart data and data required for ConFemPost, see Section 2. Restart is not possible with ConSimFem and not relevant for ConPlad and ConSimplex.

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