Imports data from Tecplot formatted file (text).
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Description |
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? tecplotread('filename.dat'); |
List all zones ( domains) in the data file. |
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? tecplotread('filename.dat','zonename'); |
List all of the data fields associated with the zone. |
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out = tecplotread('filename.dat','zonename','dataname'); |
Retrieve the data as an array |
Example
The following example shows how the tecplotread command can be used to import data from these files into CHARGE. Special field “FETriangle” represents the triangulation and X and Y coordinates of mesh are treated as node data. Names and units depend on original data source but we must convert units to SI (m).
The first part of the tecplot_import_diode.lsf file reads the data from the example_diode_tecplot.dat file. The following two lines in the script reads in the names of the zones and the data available in the zones of the tecplot file.
filename = 'example_diode_tecplot.dat';
zonename = 'Silicon';
?"Available zones: " + tecplotread(filename);
?"Data in zone " + zonename + ": " + tecplotread(filename,zonename);
The next few lines read in the information about the finite element grid. Here t is the connectivity matrix and x, y are the vertex matrices. Notice the coordinate data is converted from units of micron to meter.
t = tecplotread(filename,zonename,'FETriangle');
x = 1e-6*tecplotread(filename,zonename,'X [um]'); # convert to SI from um to m
y = 1e-6*tecplotread(filename,zonename,'Y [um]'); # convert to SI, invert
The following lines then read the doping data.
NA_name = 'NA [1/cm3]';
ND_name = 'ND [1/cm3]';
NA = 1e6*tecplotread(filename,zonename,NA_name); # convert to SI (cm^-3 -- m^-3)
ND = 1e6*tecplotread(filename,zonename,ND_name); # convert to SI (cm^-3 -- m^-3)
After reading the data, the code creates unstructured datasets for the doping data and creates geometries and import doping objects. The same task can be performed using the Dataset builder in CHARGE once the data has been imported.
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