User Guide# This guide is an overview and explains important features of Acoular. Getting Started Prerequisites Generate Example Data Beamforming Example Step By Step Plotting The Result Next Steps Lazy Evaluation The Basic Idea Lazy Traits And Generators Example: Frequency-Domain Beamforming Example: Time-Domain Beamforming Chain Adding A Cache To A Lazy Chain Changing Parameters Practical Consequences Caching What Is Cached Cache Files And Cache Keys Global Caching Modes Object-Level Caching Explicitly Caching A Processing Chain Choosing The HDF5 Backend Practical Tips