I want to play around with some plasma simulations → PIC
Therefore I am considering ParaView as a result viewer.
Not my questions is, what would be the best file formate to save my data?
It needs to support simple 2D meshes for the magnetic and electric field. Both are time dependent.
Additionally, i need to store a lot of particles (ions and electrons) with their positions and velocities over time.
Would you suggest to use plain .csv?
Since I have not yet worked with ParaView, i hope the answers provide a great starting point
I can fully decide which format I can use, so no restrictions there
I did now tried using .vtk file and seems to work already great good for field information, particle are not yet stored. Are there any advantages of hdf5 over vtk?
However, hdf5 is less of a file format than a file encoding. The analogy for csv files is that csv is the format but the files are usually encoded as text files. The hdf5 encoding corresponds to the text file in this comparison.