how to run a project without xml file.

[billa]

Hello everyone,

i have this model i am solving for Electrostatic calculations, and i can solve it accurately with GUI. However, the model has 120 bodies and 115 of them have to be assigned boundary conditions. this is proving to be a very frustrating task as i have to simulate with different materials and values assigned to each body and boundaries.
I have made a script to automatically create .sif file as per my need. however i understand reading from posts that changes made in sif do not reflect back in the xml and hence in to the GUI.

is there any way i can still run the project, perhaps without needing the xml? i have all the other required files defining mesh, boundaries and bodies.I just need the vtu file for visualization in paraview.

Thanks
BR,
Billa

[kevinarden]

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/physics/elmer/doc/

Manuals are here the overview, models, and solver manuals are the most used.

The command line for running the solver is

ElmerSolver

It will run the case file in the ELMERSOLVER_STARTINFO by default

to run another sif or if that file is not present

ElmerSolver mycase.sif