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PlasmaPy

Creators

  • 1. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
  • 2. UCLA
  • 3. University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
  • 4. Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 5. University of Delaware
  • 6. Chandigarh University
  • 7. ROR icon Bryn Mawr College
  • 8. ROR icon University of California, Los Angeles
  • 9. ROR icon Space Science Institute
  • 10. OpenRefactory Inc.
  • 11. ROR icon North Carolina State University
  • 12. ROR icon University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 13. University of York
  • 14. University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 15. University of Michigan
  • 16. ROR icon Beloit College
  • 17. NASA Ames Research Center
  • 18. UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • 19. University of Sheffield
  • 20. Vanderbilt University
  • 21. ROR icon University of California, Berkeley
  • 22. Yale University
  • 23. MIT
  • 24. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • 25. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 26. American University
  • 27. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 28. Columbia University
  • 29. CEA
  • 30. Princeton University
  • 31. Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
  • 32. ROR icon Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion
  • 33. University of Stuttgart
  • 34. Aperio Software
  • 35. University of Edinburgh
  • 36. College of William & Mary
  • 37. Victoria University of Wellington
  • 38. ROR icon Virginia Tech
  • 39. Boston University
  • 40. PES University
  • 41. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa
  • 42. Zap Energy
  • 43. ROR icon Grinnell College
  • 44. Michigan State University
  • 45. University of Washington
  • 46. Phoenix Security Labs
  • 47. ROR icon Marietta College
  • 48. Mullard Space Science Laboratory
  • 49. ROR icon Texas A&M University
  • 50. Centre Spatial de l'École Polytechnique
  • 51. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Description

PlasmaPy is an open source Python package for plasma research and education. PlasmaPy is intended to contain core functionality needed by plasma scientists across disciplines.  The plasmapy.particles subpackage contains object-oriented and functional interfaces to represent and access basic particle data. The plasmapy.formulary subpackage contains functionality to calculate common plasma parameters, including many functions from the NRL Plasma Formulary. The plasmapy.dispersion subpackage can be used to calculate the dispersion relationships of several plasma waves, as well as the plasma dispersion function and its derivative. The plasmapy.analysis and plasmapy.diagnostics subpackage contain functionality to analyze plasma data sets. These subpackage include functionality for Thomson scattering, synthetic charged particle radiography, Langmuir probe data analysis, and finding null points in 3D magnetic field data.

Notes (English)

Development of PlasmaPy has also been supported by NASA Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements (HDEE) grant 80NSSC20K0174, a Scholarly Studies grant awarded by the Smithsonian Institution, and Google Summer of Code.

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https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy (URL)
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https://www.plasmapy.org (URL)
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Software documentation: https://docs.plasmapy.org (URL)
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Funding

Collaborative Research: Frameworks: An open source software ecosystem for plasma physics 1931388
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Frameworks: An open source software ecosystem for plasma physics 1931393
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Frameworks: An open source software ecosystem for plasma physics 1931429
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: Frameworks: An open source software ecosystem for plasma physics 1931435
National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: The Evolution of Magnetic Skeletons During 3D Magnetic Reconnection DE-SC0016363
United States Department of Energy

Dates

Created
2024-10-29

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active

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