[yt-users] yt for PLUTO

[Andrew Myers]

Hi Varadarajan,

I believe that the current pluto frontend in yt will only work with
Chombo-style output files. If you are using a static grid output format,
you will likely have to modify the frontend.

Best,
Andrew


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Varadarajan Parthasarathy <
varada at camk.edu.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>         I read through the webpages of yt-project and came to know that
> PLUTO is partly supported for yt and there is still a scope for creating a
> new code front end. To that extent, I would like to inform with how much I
> could get into this:
>
> import h5py
> from yt.mods import *
>
> f = h5py.File("/.../.../testproblem/data.nnnn.dbl.h5", "r")
>
> print f.items()
> [(u'cell_coords', <HDF5 group "/cell_coords" (3 members)>),
> (u'node_coords', <HDF5 group "/node_coords" (3 members)>), (u'vars', <HDF5
> group "/vars" (5 members)>)]
>
> print f.keys()
> [u'cell_coords', u'node_coords', u'vars']
>
> where cell_coords and node_coords are X, Y, Z cell and node contain
> different values. 'vars' are 'prs', 'rho', 'vx1', 'vx2', 'vx3'.
>
> But after this I am not able to get the data into the dictionary and hence
> unable to produce plots. I did see through the PLUTO specified field list,
> but I am not able to make the way out. Also, the simulation was not run
> with Chombo refinement, but I hope it may not be a serious issue. Moreover,
> the procedure given in loading a generic array data for HDF5 files was a
> bit confusing with regard to,
>
> data_dir = ytcfg.get('yt','test_data_dir')
> f = h5py.File(data_dir+"/Unigriddata/....h5", "r")
>
> can anyone explain if this 'test_data_dir' is just the working directory
> and then 'f' consists of the file, else the procedure that I have followed
> directly is still correct.
>
> I will be really glad if I can get to do data analysis and other such
> stuff with yt.
>
> I hope to hear soon.
>
> Regards.,
> Varadarajan
>
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