Dear All! I have a question in regard to differences between cell data and point data: The following project has been calculated in simscale and postprocessed in paraview. In paraview there are two different options to visualize windspeed, one uses cell data, the other own point data. When I use…

Points are located on the corners of cell faces. This means a point can be touching many different cells. A cell is a volume and has many points associated with it. Point data appears finer since your mesh has more points than cells. Point data is interpolated from the raw cell data. Then, in a…

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Cell Data vs Point Data

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jousefm November 17, 2019, 11:07am 3

My buddy Darren (@1318980 ) has put together a nice summary of the differences here: Post-Processing: Data Types

That should help you

Jousef

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