VlachosGroup/vunits: Version 0.0.2

The Virtual Kinetic Laboratory Units(VUnits) is a Python library for unit conversion and constants developed by the Vlachos Research Group at the University of Delaware. This code supports Python-based Virtual Kinetic Laboratory software and aims to be lightweight.

Documentation

See our documentation page for examples, equations used, and docstrings.

Developers

• Jonathan Lym (jlym@udel.edu)

Dependencies

• Python3
• Numpy: Used for vector and matrix operations
• Pandas: Used to represent unit dimensions of Quantity objects
• xlrd: (Optional) Used by testing suite to read Excel spreadsheets

Getting Started

Install using pip (see documentation for more thorough instructions):

pip install vunits

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Contributing

If you have a suggestion or find a bug, please post to our Issues page with the 'enhancement' or 'bug' tag respectively. Finally, if you would like to add to the body of code, please:

• for the development branch
• make the desired changes
• write the appropriate unit tests
• submit a pull request

Questions

If you have issues, please post to our Issues page with the 'help wanted' or 'question' tag. We will do our best to assist.

Funding

This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office under Award Number DE-EE0007888-9.5.