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

<name> := E<chapter>-<example>

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

<name>.<type>.txt

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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