FluidDyn documentation

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The FluidDyn project aims at promoting the use of open-source Python software in research in fluid dynamics. The project provides some Python packages specialized for different tasks, in particular

This documentation presents the FluidDyn project and the package of the same name, which is the base package on which the other packages depend on. For the specific documentations of these specialized packages, follow the links above.

We try to gather information on how to use computers in the website Fluidhowto.

Metapaper and citation

If you use any of the FluidDyn packages to produce scientific articles, please cite our metapaper presenting the FluidDyn project and the fluiddyn package:

@article{fluiddyn,
doi = {10.5334/jors.237},
year = {2019},
publisher = {Ubiquity Press,  Ltd.},
volume = {7},
author = {Pierre Augier and Ashwin Vishnu Mohanan and Cyrille Bonamy},
title = {{FluidDyn}: A Python Open-Source Framework for Research and Teaching in Fluid Dynamics
    by Simulations,  Experiments and Data Processing},
journal = {Journal of Open Research Software}
}

API Reference

Here is a presentation of the API of the fluiddyn package. If you are looking for a particular feature, you can also use the “Quick search” tool in this page.

fluiddyn.io

Input/output streams

fluiddyn.util

Utilities

fluiddyn.clusters

Clusters

fluiddyn.output

Scientific output toolkit

fluiddyn.calcul

Numerical computation

Fluiddyn also provides a small package for documentation:

fluiddoc

Utilities to build documentations with sphinx

Indices and tables