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

[Andy Bauer]

Another idea here -- since your simulation is Python-based, you may want to
consider just building a Python-wrapped build of VTK and importing the VTK
writers directly into your simulation code. Then you'd have access to all
of the readers/writers in VTK. Going through the blog posts at
https://blog.kitware.com/improved-vtk-numpy-integration/ is a good example
of how VTK and numpy can easily work together.

Cheers,
Andy

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Christopher Neal <chrisneal at snumerics.com>
wrote:

> 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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