yt v2.1 documentation

yt Overview

yt is a general-purpose toolkit designed to analyze, manage and visualize adaptive mesh refinement data. It has full support for the Enzo, Orion, and FLASH codes, with preliminary support for RAMSES, ART, Chombo, CASTRO and MAESTRO codes. It runs both interactively and non-interactively, and has been designed to support as many operations as possible in parallel. For more detailed information, see our ApJS paper.

To install yt, see yt Orientation Session or Installing yt.

If you use yt in a paper, you are highly encouraged to read about our policy on free repository space for analysis code! We encourage you to explore the source code and even consider contributing your enhancements and scripts.

For more information, please visit our homepage and for help, please see Asking for Help.

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