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COFFEE -- An MPI-parallelized Python package for the numerical evolution of differential equations

Mathematical Software 2023-03-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

COFFEE (ConFormal Field Equation Evolver) is a Python package primarily developed to numerically evolve systems of partial differential equations over time using the method of lines. It includes a variety of time integrators and finite differencing stencils with the summation-by-parts property, as well as pseudo-spectral functionality for angular derivatives of spin-weighted functions. Some additional capabilities include being MPI-parallelisable on a variety of different geometries, HDF data output and post processing scripts to visualize data, and an actions class that allows users to create code for analysis after each timestep.

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@article{arxiv.1903.12482,
  title  = {COFFEE -- An MPI-parallelized Python package for the numerical evolution of differential equations},
  author = {Georgios Doulis and Jörg Frauendiener and Chris Stevens and Ben Whale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12482},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

12 pages, 1 figure, accepted to be published in SoftwareX

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