[aspect-devel] Raw data output

Timo Heister heister at math.tamu.edu
Tue Jun 5 12:01:37 PDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth
<bangerth at math.tamu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to output particle information (position, velocity, etc) in
>> an easy to parse format for use in scientific analysis.  The VTK
>> format works great for visualization but is hard to parse in Python
>> or MATLAB scripts.  Is there any format preference in Aspect when
>> outputting raw simulation data (e.g. HDF5 vs. NetCDF vs. ASCII)?
>
> I don't have any. I would say use whatever is most convenient for
> whatever it is you want to do with it. If someone wants another format
> in addition we can always implement that too.

In the long run there is some interest in supporting hdf5 output for
graphical data (from a different project). If we do implement that in
deal.ii it would make sense to put data like this also into hdf5. For
now I would go the easiest (ascii) route. But we should extend the
configuration of deal.II to allow hdf5 at some point.

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Timo Heister
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~heister/


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