[firedrake] Output for time-stepping?

[Buesing, Henrik]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: firedrake-bounces at imperial.ac.uk [mailto:firedrake-
> bounces at imperial.ac.uk] Im Auftrag von Lawrence Mitchell
> Gesendet: 13 November 2015 13:20
> An: firedrake at imperial.ac.uk
> Betreff: Re: [firedrake] Output for time-stepping?
> 
> 
> > On 13 Nov 2015, at 12:14, Justin Chang <jychang48 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lawrence,
> >
> > So the first option is what I have been doing. Yes only one pvd is
> created. But what ends up also happening is that I get hundreds of .vtu
> files. Are those files necessary for pvd to work? Sorry I am not in
> front of my computer so I can't test any of this out yet.
> 
> 
> Aha, I see.  Yes, unfortunately that's how it is :(.  Eventually we
> intend to have nice HDF5 output for viz, but it's not there yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lawrence

[Buesing, Henrik] Since you can also access PETSc directly, shouldn't you be able to use PetscViewerVTKOpen or PetscViewerHDF5Open for the output?