viRMHD2D

Python/Cython package providing reference implementations of variational integrators for reduced magnetohydrodynamics in 2D.

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7 or 3.x (x >= 3)
• Cython
• configobj
• numpy
• PETSc 3.x (x >= 5) (compiled with MPI, HDF5, HYPRE)
• petsc4py
• h5py
• matplotlib

References

Michael Kraus, Omar Maj. Variational Integrators for Nonvariational Partial Differential Equations. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Volume 310, Pages 37-71, 2015. Journal, arXiv:1412.2011.

Michael Kraus, Emanuele Tassi, Daniela Grasso
Variational Integrators for Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics. Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 321, Pages 435-458, 2016. arXiv:1511.09314, Journal

License

The viRMHD2D package is licensed under the MIT "Expat" License.