About PyClaw

PyClaw is part of Clawpack – an open-source, free project. If you find PyClaw useful, please let us know.

Contributors

Many people have contributed to PyClaw, some of them very substantial parts of the package. Their work is greatly appreciated: no open source project can survive without a community. The following people contributed major parts of the library (in alphabetical order)

  • Aron Ahmadia: PETSc integration; I/O; programmatic testing framework; general design.
  • Amal Alghamdi: Initial development of PetClaw, many bug-fixes and enhancements.
  • Jed Brown: Implicit time stepping (still experimental).
  • Ondrej Certik: Installation and continuous integration bug-fixes.
  • Lisandro Dalcin: Fortran wrapping; PETSc integration; general efficiency.
  • Matthew Emmett: PyWENO integration.
  • Yiannis Hadjimichael: Documentation testing.
  • David Ketcheson: General maintenance and development; incorporation of SharpClaw routines.
  • Matthew Knepley: General design; PETSc integration.
  • Grady Lemoine: Interleaving and cache-optimization of 3D Classic routines.
  • Kyle Mandli: Initial design and implementation of the PyClaw framework.
  • Matteo Parsani: Mapped grids; Python-Fortran interfacing; implicit time stepping.
  • Manuel Quezada de Luna: 2D P-system Riemann solvers and example script.
  • Kristof Unterweger: PeanoClaw (AMR); still experimental.

Contributions to the package are most welcome. If you have used PyClaw for research, chances are that others would find your code useful. See develop for more details.

License

PyClaw is distributed under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) style license. The license is in the file pyclaw/LICENSE.txt and reprinted below.

See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php for more details.

Copyright (c) 2008-2011 Kyle Mandli and David I. Ketcheson. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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  • Neither the name of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Funding

PyClaw development has been supported by grants from King Abdullah University of Science & Technology.