Analysis and post-processing

(page under construction)

This page collects information on existing tools which can be used to analyse data produced using the Einstein Toolkit. See also [Visualization of simulation results].

SimulationTools

Homepage	simulationtools.org
Authors	Ian Hinder and Barry Wardell
Licence	GPLv2
Requirements	Mathematica (proprietary)

SimulationTools provides a functional interface to simulation data which deals transparently with merging output from different segments, and can read data from several different thorns, depending on what is available. The package supports reading Carpet HDF5 data and doing the required component-merging etc so that you can do analysis on the resulting data in Mathematica. This supports 1D, 2D and 3D data, but is essentially dimension-agnostic. It has a component called SimView which displays a panel summarising a BBH simulation, including run speed and memory usage as a function of coordinate time, BH trajectories, separation, waveforms, etc. SimulationTools is coupled to a C++ replacement for the Mathematica HDF5 reader.

SimulationTools is available under the GPL and is developed on BitBucket, and would be a good candidate for including in the Einstein Toolkit at some point.