Vlasiator.jl

Data processing and analyzing tool for the collisionless ion-kinetic plasma physics numerical model Vlasiator.

Installation

In the Julia REPL,

julia> ]
pkg> add Vlasiator

Visualization via PyPlot, Makie, and Plots are supported. Please refer to the manual for installing different plotting backends.

Usage

First import the package

julia> using Vlasiator

For Vlasiator data, e.g. demo.vlsv, we can load via

julia> meta = load("demo.vlsv")

For plotting 2D contours with PyPlot,

julia> pcolormesh(meta, "proton/vg_rho")

More usages can be found in the manual.