README.md

This simple python script will create a double precision binary file from a numpy 2D grid. This allows you to input interesting initial density distributions etc. into your EPOCH simulation. For more information on how to do this read the documents linked.

1. Species Block
2. Binary files

In this repo:

1. .py file: contains the relavent functions to create the .dat binary file
2. input.deck: An input for EPOCH which can read in the .dat file
3. particles.dat: The binary data file created using the python functions
4. particles.png: An image of the created grid (as seen by EPOCH)

Note: it is always worth creating a simple simulation to check that the input appears the way you want it to. This input.deck runs in a couple of seconds.

Also note that FORTRAN (and EPOCH) reads arrays as "column-major order" whereas numpy uses "row-major order" which is why the image is rotated when it is plotted.