Pyclaw Controller Class¶
The pyclaw controller object is a convenience class for running simulations based on the classic clawpack formats and output specifications. It allows for a variety of output time specifications, output styles and other ways to keep a simulation organized.
The main way to use a Controller object then is to provide it with an
appropriate Solver and initial
Solution object. Then specify what kind of output
you would like different than the defaults (see
Controller for
details on what those are). Then simply call
run() in order to run the desired
simulation.
>>> import pyclaw.controller as controller
>>> claw = controller.Controller() # Instantiate a new controller
>>> claw.solver = my_solver # Assign a solver
>>> claw.solution = my_initial_solution # Assign an initial condition
Here we would set a variety of run parameters such as tfinal,
keep_copy if we wanted to plot the solutions immediately, or
output_format to specify a format other than ascii or no output files
if we are going to use keep_copy = True. After we are all set up we just
need to call the controller’s run() method and off we go.
>>> claw.run()
Please see the PyClaw tutorial: Solve the acoustics equations for a detailed example of how this would work in its entirety.
