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diff --git a/Docs/source/visualization/visualization.rst b/Docs/source/visualization/visualization.rst index 29c299798..0c9c56837 100644 --- a/Docs/source/visualization/visualization.rst +++ b/Docs/source/visualization/visualization.rst @@ -1,12 +1,33 @@ Visualizing the simulation results ================================== +WarpX can write data either in `plotfile` format (AMReX's native format), or +in `openPMD format <https://www.openpmd.org/>`_ (a common data format for +Particle-In-Cell codes). + +.. note:: + + This is controlled by the parameters ``warpx.dump_plotfiles`` and + ``warpx.dump_openpmd`` in the section :doc:`../running_cpp/parameters`. + +This section describes some of the tools available to visualize the data: + .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 yt visit picviewer - sensei - ascent + openpmdviewer advanced + + +In addition, WarpX also has In-Situ Visualization capabilities (i.e. +visualizing the data directly from the simulation, without dumping data +files to disk). + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + sensei + ascent |