AVS Modules                                                    phoen read
copyright  1992   Michael J. Rangitsch                         8 Apr 1992

NAME
     phoen read  - reads in a PHI.DAT sequential formatted file created
                   by the PHOENICS computational fluid dynamics simulation
                   program.  Phoen read converts the PHI.DAT file into a
                   AVS field.
SUMMARY
      Name        phoen read

      Type        data input

      Inputs      none

      Outputs     field 3D float 3-space 

      Parameters  phi.dat file name
                  xyz.dat file name

DESCRIPTION
      This module converts a phi.dat data file produced by PHOENICS into
      an AVS field.  The type of the field is computed by the header 
      information in the phi.dat file.  Cartesian, cylindrical and BFC
      cases are all supported.  Null velocity fields are produced for 1 and
      2 dimensional cases to fill out three velocity components needed for
      modules such as the particle advector.

INPUT
      The input data files must be formatted sequential files.

OUTPUT
      The output is a 3d field, either irregular or rectilinear, depending
      on the input field.  All stored variables in PHOENICS are available
      in the n-vector field.

PARAMETERS
      phi.dat file name - the PHOENICS data file
      xyz.dat file name - the PHOENICS grid file

EXAMPLES
      The following network shows a typical usage of phoen read

                             phoen read
                                  |               
                 ------------extract vector
                |                 |
                |                 |
          volume bounds     particle advector
                |                 |
                |                 |
                |                 |
                 ---------- render geometry
                                  |
                           display pixmap


RELATED MODULES
      read field

AVS Module						       phoen read
Michael J. Rangitsch          				       8 Apr 1992