In many of the previous episodes we produced animations of steady state Elmer FEM solutions. For simplicity we did not discuss the details of how to prepare them. The process is actually very simple, but there are few tips and tricks to keep in mind. This episode aims to provide a concise introduction to animations with ParaView.

In the previous episodes we often made use of the ParaView postprocessor to visualise our solution field from the Elmer solver. ParaView can do all sorts of cool visualisations and animations, as well as providing the way of doing quantitative analysis. It is by far the best option to visualise and postprocess results from Elmer. It also allows to export data in various formats, such as CSV, that allow us to do any additional kind of postprocessing or verification, by either using Julia, Python or any other language, or even spreadsheet software if you fancy that (for whatever reason…).