When the leading edge aligns up exactly with a cell edge, write_velocity_field writes a NaN value.
(yellow indicates NaN)
aligned

not-aligned

NaN values are not supported by the ASCII VTK legacy file format.
In order to generate these images I wrote binary support for VTKFieldWriter, I will create a pull request with binary support.
When the leading edge aligns up exactly with a cell edge, write_velocity_field writes a NaN value.
(yellow indicates NaN)
aligned


not-aligned
NaN values are not supported by the ASCII VTK legacy file format.
In order to generate these images I wrote binary support for VTKFieldWriter, I will create a pull request with binary support.