PrepareRandomFieldSimulation Class Reference

A struct collecting export information for random field simulation data.

The idea is the following:

• The user generates all data required for simulating a random field in SoS. Example:
  • Import simulation responses from a robustness sampling
  • Perform Karhunen-Loeve expansion: Create amplitudes, create scatter shapes, create shape_mean and local error vectors
• SoS selects those amplitudes the user wants to use for random field generation
• SoS exports data to optiSLang:
  • a CSV file containing the amplitudes (needed by optiSLang to estimate the statistical properties of the amplitudes)
  • a SDB file that contains the reference mesh and a few data objects (the minimum set of required objects to generate field objects from given amplitudes). These are essentially scatter shapes and mean value vectors
  • a script file that is called by optiSLang for each design.
  • a text file that lists the files required for export: The first row denotes the base_path of the reference design. All other rows denote a filename (relative to the design path) which is required by the field data exporter. These file names are relative to the reference path.
• optiSLang then calls for each design:
  • For each design given: the design number, the design path, path to SDB database, path to a csv file that contains the values of the amplitudes of this design (the CSV file only contains 2 rows. first row: amplitude idents; second row: the amplitude values, separated by a comma (",") ).
  • the script then generates the field quantities and exports them using previously defined export definition data...
    • It expects that the design path contains all field data files to be modified. Further it still assumes that the original reference path (for export definition) still exists.

To read a more detailed workflow with examples and so on refer to SectionAutomatedSimulationOfRandomFields .