Citation

Citation

If you use UPXO in research or published work, please cite the SoftwareX paper and state the software version you ran.

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Preferred citation (SoftwareX)

Sunil Anandatheertha, Vikram Phalke, Eralp Demir, Chris Hardie,
UKAEA Poly-XTAL operations (UPXO V1.0): An open-source Python package for generating, assessment and meshing of poly-crystalline grain structures,
SoftwareX, Volume 34, 2026, 102736, ISSN 2352-7110,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102736

BibTeX

@article{anandatheertha2026upxo1pnt1,
  title   = {UKAEA Poly-XTAL operations (UPXO V1.0): An open-source Python package for
             generating, assessment and meshing of poly-crystalline grain structures},
  author  = {Anandatheertha, Sunil and Phalke, Vikram and Demir, Eralp and Hardie, Chris},
  journal = {SoftwareX},
  volume  = {34},
  pages   = {102736},
  year    = {2026},
  issn    = {2352-7110},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.softx.2026.102736}
}

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102736

Also listed in pyproject.toml project URLs under Citation.

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Software version

import upxo
print(upxo.__version__)

Report this string (and OS / Python version if relevant) in methods or supplementary material. Version history: Changelog & Releases.

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Authors / affiliations (as in project docs)

Contributor	Affiliation
Dr. Sunil Anandatheertha	UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Culham, UK
Dr. Vikram Phalke	UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Culham, UK
Dr. Chris Hardie	UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Culham, UK
Dr. Eralp Demir	University of Oxford, UK

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Funding

Work has been funded by STEP, led by UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd (UKIFS), supporting the UK’s prototype fusion power plant programme.

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Licence when citing / reusing

• Academic / open use: GPL-3.0 (LICENSE)
• Commercial / proprietary integration: see COMMERCIAL.md and Contributing

Citing the paper does not replace complying with the software licence for redistribution or closed-source embedding.

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Contact

Academic setup help (from project README): Dr. Sunil Anandatheertha — vaasu.anandatheertha@ukaea.uk

Issues: https://github.com/Design-By-Fundamentals-UKAEA/UPXO/issues
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