I have a 2-D unstructured grid for CFD calculations formed by triangles. I.e. there are two arrays: {i, x(i), y(i)} and {j, j1,j2,j3} where x(i),y(i) are coordinates of i-th node; j1,j2,j3 are nodes of j-th triangle. Is it possible to apply well known package Gnuplot (ver 4.0) to draw such grid and how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

If you output your grid as

# First cell

x1 y1

x2 y2

x3 y3

x1 y1 # Second cell ...

where (x1,y1), (x2,y2) and (x3,y3) are the (consecuitive vertices of the triangle then gnuplot should be able to plot the grid with the usual plot command.

Thanks Tom, all works perfectly.

Jim.

Hi Tom,

The same question, in case i have a structured grid, with x,y co-ordinates for all the node points, GNU PLOT should be able to plot the same properly rt..

Plz confirm,

Thanks,

krishna.

You can do as I described above but using 4 points (which for a structured grid is a bit wasteful) or for each grid line in one direction ouput the (x,y) node values (remembering to inset a blank/comment line between each block) and then repeat in the other direction; i.e. if your node points are at x(M,N), y(M,N) then the file should look something like

# x direction

x(1,1) y(1,1)

x(2,1) y(2,1)

.....

x(M,1) y(M,1)

# 2nd grid line

x(1,2) y(1,2)

....

....

x(M,N) y(M,N)

# Now y direction

x(1,1) y(1,1)

x(1,2) y(1,2)

....

x(1,N) y(1,N)

etc

i think if you use 'set dgrid3d then you may plot even non grided data. -amol