************ FEM File ************ :: FEM file = ----------------------- Description / Usage ----------------------- This required card specifies the name of the EXODUS II finite element mesh file. Any EXODUS II file name is permissible, as specified below. .. tabularcolumns:: |l|L| A file name of the form *prefix*.exoII. The *prefix* portion is any user-specified alpha-numeric string, which can be used as a problem-type descriptor. Preprocessors and postprocessors (like AVS) might require the “.exoII” suffix so it is a required part of the file designation. The maximum length of the file name is 85 characters. ------------ Examples ------------ Following is a sample card: :: FEM file = in.exoII ------------------------- Technical Discussion ------------------------- This file contains the finite element discretization of the problem domain. Finite element mesh files from other preprocessors may be used with *Goma* as long as a translator from the preprocessor’s output format to the EXODUS II format is available to the analyst. -------------- References -------------- The EXODUS II format is documented in: * EXODUS II: A Finite Element Data Model, Schoof, L. A. and V. R. Yarberry, SAND92-2137, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.