[Paraview] Which file format to use for time series on tetrahedral mesh

[Christopher Neal]

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 <mibieri at gmail.com> 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
>
>
>
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-- 
Christopher Neal
Research Engineer
Streamline Numerics, Inc.
https://www.snumerics.com/
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