Scientific software engineering; wave equation model

Contents:

• Scientific software engineering; wave equation model
• A 1D wave equation simulator
  • Mathematical model
  • Numerical discretization
  • A solver function
• Saving large arrays in files
  • Using savez to store arrays in files
  • Using joblib to store arrays in files
  • Using a hash to create a file or directory name
• Software for the 1D wave equation
  • Making hash strings from input data
  • Avoiding rerunning previously run cases
  • Verification
• Programming the solver with classes
  • Class Problem
  • Class Mesh
  • Class Function
  • Class Solver
• Migrating loops to Cython
  • Declaring variables and annotating the code
  • Visual inspection of the C translation
  • Building the extension module
  • Calling the Cython function from Python
• Migrating loops to Fortran
  • The Fortran subroutine
  • Building the Fortran module with f2py
  • How to avoid array copying
• Migrating loops to C via Cython
  • Translating index pairs to single indices
  • The complete C code
  • The Cython interface file
  • Building the extension module
• Migrating loops to C via f2py
  • Migrating loops to C++ via f2py
• Exercises
  • Exercise 1: Make an improved numpy.savez function
• Bibliography

Index

• Index