Tools to post-process output simulations from the SWMF framework (see here and here).
When dealing with the output data from SWMF simulations, we often need to deal with IDL binary/ASCII formats, which leads us to use IDL (i.e. propietary software).
This is an open-source/free-software alternative to post-process those binary files, using solely Python libraries.
This repository deals with:
- conversion of the IDL binaries/ASCII formats from SWMF to HDF5 format, stored in an array structure that is friendly with Matplotlib routines.
- 2D/3D plotting routines, making cuts in spherical coordinates. The previous step of getting the HDF5 versions of tha data saves a lot of time when running the plotting scripts.
For description of the tools see the sources README.