Output Files #

In this section, we will list and explain all data output files from the simulation program. There are two types of data output, one is a snapshot of some 3D distribution at a specific simulation timestep, second is a chronical log file that keep records of only several important parameters in the system.

We have several conventions for our data output. The name of the 3D data snapshot, such as Efield.00001000.vti, all has three parts, first part describes the content of the data, second part shows the simulation timestep that this snapshot is taken, and the third part is the extension .vti, which is a xml based VTK data format that you can easily visualize using Paraview. The chronical log are all .csv files with a header line describing the data value for the corresponding column. Each line of the .csv file is output for one simulation step.