chrono::utils::ChValidation Class Reference

Description

This class provides functionality for validation of simulation results.

It provides functions for processing either two data files (simulation and reference) and calculating the norms of the column differences, or for processing a single simulation data file and calculating the norms of its columns. In either case, it is assumed that the first column in a data file contains time values. This column is never processed.

#include <ChUtilsValidation.h>

Public Member Functions

bool Process (const std::string &sim_filename, const std::string &ref_filename, char delim='\t')
 Read the data from the specified files and process it. More...
 
bool Process (const Data &sim_data, const Data &ref_data)
 Process the data in the two specified structures. More...
 
bool Process (const std::string &sim_filename, char delim='\t')
 Read the data in the specified file and process it. More...
 
bool Process (const Data &sim_data)
 Process the data in the specified structure. More...
 
size_t GetNumColumns () const
 Return the number of data columns.
 
size_t GetNumRows () const
 Return the number of rows.
 
const HeadersGetHeadersSimData () const
 Return the headers in the simulation data file.
 
const DataGetSimData () const
 Return the simulation data.
 
const HeadersGetHeadersRefData () const
 Return the headers in the reference data file.
 
const DataGetRefData () const
 Return the reference data.
 
double GetL2norm (size_t col) const
 Return the L2 norm for the specified column.
 
double GetRMSnorm (size_t col) const
 Return the RMS norm for the specified column.
 
double GetINFnorm (size_t col) const
 Return the infinity norm for the specified column.
 
const DataVectorGetL2norms () const
 Return the L2 norms for all columns.
 
const DataVectorGetRMSnorms () const
 Return the RMS norm for all columns.
 
const DataVectorGetINFnorms () const
 Return the infinity norms for all columns.
 

Static Public Member Functions

static size_t ReadDataFile (const std::string &filename, char delim, Headers &headers, Data &data)
 Read the specified data file. More...
 

Member Function Documentation

◆ Process() [1/4]

bool chrono::utils::ChValidation::Process ( const Data sim_data)

Process the data in the specified structure.

We calculate the vector norms of all columns except the first one.

Parameters
sim_datasimulation data structure

◆ Process() [2/4]

bool chrono::utils::ChValidation::Process ( const Data sim_data,
const Data ref_data 
)

Process the data in the two specified structures.

Excluding the first column (which must contain identical values in the two input structures), we subtract the data in corresponding columns in the two structures are and calculate the norms of the difference vectors.

Parameters
sim_datasimulation data strcture
ref_datareference data structure

◆ Process() [3/4]

bool chrono::utils::ChValidation::Process ( const std::string &  sim_filename,
char  delim = '\t' 
)

Read the data in the specified file and process it.

We calculate the vector norms of all columns except the first one.

Parameters
sim_filenamename of the file with simulation results
delimdelimiter (default TAB)

◆ Process() [4/4]

bool chrono::utils::ChValidation::Process ( const std::string &  sim_filename,
const std::string &  ref_filename,
char  delim = '\t' 
)

Read the data from the specified files and process it.

Excluding the first column (which must contain identical values in the two input files), we subtract the data in corresponding columns in the two files are and calculate the norms of the difference vectors.

Parameters
sim_filenamename of the file with simulation results
ref_filenamename of the file with reference data
delimdelimiter (default TAB)

◆ ReadDataFile()

size_t chrono::utils::ChValidation::ReadDataFile ( const std::string &  filename,
char  delim,
Headers headers,
Data data 
)
static

Read the specified data file.

The file is assumed to be delimited by the specified character. The return value is the actual number of data points read from the file.

Parameters
[in]filenamename of the data file
[in]delimdelimiter
[out]headersvector of column header strings
[out]datatable of data values

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:
  • /builds/uwsbel/chrono/src/chrono/utils/ChUtilsValidation.h
  • /builds/uwsbel/chrono/src/chrono/utils/ChUtilsValidation.cpp