I've enjoyed using the EnsightGold format for visualizing my datasets. It can separate the grid from the solution data, so that you don't need to have a grid for every single timestep.
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Michael Bieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I have an FEM simulation, mostly based on Numpy. The simulation happens on > a tetrahedral mesh and generates data for multiple time steps. There are > less than several million nodes. > > Currently I'm not sure to which file format I should output my simulation > results in order to visualize with Paraview. I'm looking for a well > documented format that can handle time steps and tetrahedral meshes. PVD as > well as VTK formats seem to be not very well documented, unfortunately. > > I do not mind to implement the file writer by myself as this can easily be > done in Python. > > Best regards, > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ > opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > -- Christopher Neal Research Engineer Streamline Numerics, Inc. https://www.snumerics.com/
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