Getting started¶

Installation¶

For this to run, you will need the following installed

Python 2.7+/3+

NumPy

Matplotlib

If running on Mac OS X, I recommend installing the Anaconda package. On Ubuntu, just type:

sudo apt-get install python python-numpy python-matplotlib

Running an example¶

Parameters for each simulation are contained in separate files in the inputs directory. For example, to run the simulation described by inputs/ball.py, run the following in the terminal:

python MPM.py ball

By default, the output files should be contained in ~/Documents/poly-mpm.

Loading example data¶

This is a fairly convoluted process, but is kind of summarised here:

digraph foo {
"input file" -> "inititalise" -> "params.Params instance";
}

Any data which is not provided in the input file will be created with a default value in initialise.py. This complete data is then passed into the params.Params instance, which is used for the rest of the simulation.