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Draft: Radial shell output

Nils Kohl requested to merge kohl/radial-output into master

This MR implements output of FE coefficients (P1 and P2, scalar and vector-valued) to point clouds that are organized in radial shells for the thick spherical shell mesh (with blending).

The scope is as follows:

  • a new class RadialShellData to gather and store the FE data in radial layers
  • VTK output for point clouds (general point clouds - including those generated above) via VTKPointCloudOutput
  • test P2 since edge DoFs and shells must somehow be organized meaningfully
  • ADIOS2 output (requires ADIOS2 consulting from @mohr)

It hopefully will also resolve issues regarding the nomenclature of shell and layer as well as corresponding computations. It appears that their definition is unclear. We need to distinguish between

  • (what I currently call shell) 2D manifolds in 3D space, i.e., the boundaries of a sphere (centered at the origin) with a specific radius, and
  • (what I currently call layer) 3D volumes that have two such manifolds as boundaries.

Unfortunately, these definitions are not used consistently, even in older code and documentation.


VTK seems to work already for P1:

Example 1: all shells selected: point_cloud_vtk_01

Example 2: only two selected shells: point_cloud_vtk_02

Edited by Nils Kohl

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