Glossary
- CGNS
- The specific purpose of the CFD General Notation System (CGNS)
project is to provide a standard for recording and recovering
computer data associated with the numerical solution of the
equations of fluid dynamics. Read more
here....
- CGNS/SIDS
- The Standard Interface Data Structure is the
specification of the data model. This public document describes
the syntax and the semantics of all tree-structured data required
or proposed for a CFD simulation. Both an HTML and a PDF version
are available here.
- CGNS/MLL
- The Mid-Level Library is an example implementation of
CGNS/SIDS on top of CGNS/ADF and CGNS/HDF5 mappings. This
library has a C and a Fortran API.
- CGNS/ADF
- The Advanced Data Format CGNS/SIDS implementation. A binary
storage format and its companion library, developped by Boeing.
- CGNS/HDF5
- The Hierarchical Data Format CGNS/SIDS implementation. A binary
storage format and its companion library (see below).
- CGNS/Python
- The Python programming language CGNS/SIDS
implementation.
See the SIDS-to-Python page.
- CHLone
- A CGNS/HDF5 compliant implementation. The CHLone library is available on
SourceForge.
- HDF5
- A powerful storage system for large data.
The HDF5
library should be seen as a middleware system with a lot of powerful
features related to efficient, portable and trustable storage mean.
- numpy
- The numerical library for Python. Numpy
is used to store the data in Python arrays which have a direct memory
mapping to actual C or Fortran memory.
- VTK
- A visualization toolkit used to display
3D objects ni CGNS.NAV.