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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear GMSH developers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I use GMSH for a long time only for post-processing
of transient gas flows (such parameter as density, velocity components and
vector, pressure, temperature, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For load this parameters in GMSH I use MSH
2.0 format. I think, that structure of this format is not optimal, because for every
physical parameter (on every time step) format requires to save node numbers,
for example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Time step 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Pressure (scalar)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1 value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2 value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>N value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Density (scalar)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1 value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2 value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>N value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If parameters will be saved in other
format, without duplicate of node number, for example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Pressure Density <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1
value
value <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2
value
value <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>N
value
value <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Then size of output file may be a little
smaller.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For fine mesh, many visualize parameters
and many output time steps the size of output file is very large.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial CYR","sans-serif";
color:black'>Zakharov A.A.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial CYR","sans-serif";
color:black'>BMSTU</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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