ex_put_nodal_var.c File Reference

#include "exodusII.h"
#include "exodusII_int.h"

Functions
int	ex_put_nodal_var (int exoid, int time_step, int nodal_var_index, int64_t num_nodes, const void *nodal_var_vals)

Function Documentation

ex_put_nodal_var()

int ex_put_nodal_var	(	int	exoid,
		int	time_step,
		int	nodal_var_index,
		int64_t	num_nodes,
		const void *	nodal_var_vals )

Deprecated

Use ex_put_var()(exoid, time_step, EX_NODAL, nodal_var_index, 1, num_nodes, nodal_var_vals)

The function ex_put_nodal_var() writes the values of a single nodal variable for a single time step. The function ex_put_variable_param() must be invoked before this call is made.

Because nodal variables are floating point values, the application code must declare the array passed to be the appropriate type (float or double) to match the compute word size passed in ex_create() or ex_open().

Returns

In case of an error, ex_put_nodal_var() returns a negative number; a warning will return a positive number. Possible causes of errors include:

• data file not properly opened with call to ex_create() or ex_open()
• data file opened for read only.
• data file not initialized properly with call to ex_put_init().
• ex_put_variable_param() not called previously specifying the number of nodal variables.

Parameters

[in]	exoid	exodus file ID returned from a previous call to ex_create() or ex_open().
[in]	time_step	The time step number, as described under ex_put_time(). This is essentially a counter that is incremented when results variables are output. The first time step is 1.
[in]	nodal_var_index	The index of the nodal variable. The first variable has an index of 1.
[in]	num_nodes	The number of nodal points.
[in]	nodal_var_vals	Array of num_nodes values of the nodal_var_index-th nodal variable for the time_step-th time step.

As an example, the following code segment writes all the nodal variables for a single time step:

int num_nod_vars, num_nodes, error, exoid, time_step;
float *nodal_var_vals;
 
\comment{write nodal variables}
nodal_var_vals = (float *) calloc(num_nodes, sizeof(float));
for (k=1; k <= num_nod_vars; k++) {
   for (j=0; j < num_nodes; j++) {
      \comment{application code fills in this array}
      nodal_var_vals[j] = 10.0;
   }
   error = ex_put_nodal_var(exoid, time_step, k, num_nodes,
                            nodal_var_vals);
}