perplex data in .dat should use ASCII data instead

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A parallel, extensible finite element code to simulate convection in both 2D and 3D models.

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perplex data in .dat should use ASCII data instead #5820

Open tjhei opened 1 month ago

tjhei commented 1 month ago

Perplex produces tables in ascii format that are not quite readable by StructuredData loader as they contain extra headers. They are also currently put into a different data structure MaterialLookup / PerplexReader / etc.

Would it be possible to unify these? There are many advantages (MPI loading, saving memory, converting to netcdf, etc)

Francyrad commented 3 weeks ago

Are Perplex data so heavy that slow the simulation? I used many mbs of tabulated EoS and I didn't see any particular slowness

If there will be changes, please let ASPECT recognize also the "old format", i've dozen of tables and they take time to build...