plasma_matrix

plasma_matrix, a Python code which sets up a matrix associated with a problem in plasma physics.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

plasma_matrix is available in a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Author:

James Cheung wrote the code that defines the plasma matrix.

Source Code:

• plasma_matrix.py, calls all the tests.
• plasma_matrix.sh, runs all the tests.
• plasma_matrix.txt, the output file.

• plasma_5_sparsity.png, the matrix sparsity graph for the small example, from the spy() command.
• plasma_100_sparsity.png, the matrix sparsity graph for the larger example, from the spy() command.