README

NOTE
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This project is not maintained here anymore. See https://github.com/cfe316/atomic

Atomic
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Atomic is a set of tools to calculate fractional abundance and radiation of
different elements in hot plasmas.


Installation and running the code
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    $ python setup.py build_ext --inplace # to compile the extension module
    $ ./fetch_adas_data # fetch the atomic data

See below for details.

Launch ipython and try out the examples:

    $ ipython

    (in ipython) >>> %run examples/radiation.py


Compiling python extension module
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The extension module is compiled using numpy.distutils:

    $ python setup.py build_ext --inplace


Fetching the atomic data
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Atomic needs atomic data ionisation/recombination etc. coefficients.  These are
fetched from the OpenADAS [1] database.  In order to download your own dataset
run:

    $ ./fetch_adas_data

For description of these so called iso-nuclear master files see [2].


References
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[1] http://open.adas.ac.uk
[2] http://www.adas.ac.uk/man/chap4-04.pdf