Murphy, Nicholas A.
Huang, Yi-Min
PlasmaPy Community
2016-10-31
<p>In recent years, researchers in several disciplines have collaborated on community-developed open source Python packages such as Astropy, SunPy, and SpacePy. These packages provide core functionality, common frameworks for data analysis and visualization, and educational tools. We propose that our community begins the development of PlasmaPy: a new open source core Python package for plasma physics. PlasmaPy could include commonly used functions in plasma physics, easy-to-use plasma simulation codes, Grad-Shafranov solvers, eigenmode solvers, and tools to analyze both simulations and experiments. The development will include modern programming practices such as version control, embedding documentation in the code, unit tests, and avoiding premature optimization. We will describe early code development on PlasmaPy, and discuss plans moving forward. The success of PlasmaPy depends on active community involvement and a welcoming and inclusive environment, so anyone interested in joining this collaboration should contact the authors.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.163752
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Zenodo
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016APS..DPPB10026M
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1238125
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1238132
https://zenodo.org/communities/plasmapy
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plasma physics, open source software, Python
PlasmaPy: beginning a community developed Python package for plasma physics
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