This project is maintained by Marco A. Lopez-Sanchez - Last update: 2024-07-29

What is PyRockWave?

PyRockWave is an open-source Python tool for reading single-crystal elastic databases and modeling and visualizing various elastic properties of Earth materials. It allows you to create models of the physical properties of rocks or rock units and to simulate and illustrate how seismic waves propagate through them. The code is designed in a modular way to facilitate its development and the interaction with other codes. Application examples, created using Jupyter notebooks, promote ease of use and reproducible workflows.

View repository on GitHub: https://github.com/marcoalopez/PyRockWave

Caution

PyRockWave is still under development (alpha state), so the functionality may be subject to major changes that break backwards compatibility, some of the code is untested, and there is no installation guide or specific documentation on how to use it yet. In any case, the code is (and always will be) open source and free, so even though there is no official release and very little documentation, you can have fun with it at your own risk.

Requirements & Python installation

TODO

How to use it?

• Interacting with the mineral elastic data

• The ElasticProps class explained

• Demonstration of the functionality of the coordinates module

• Demonstration of the functionality of the polar_models module

• Demonstration of the functionality of the orthorhombic_models module

• Demonstration of the functionality of the christoffel module (TODO)

• Demonstration of the functionality of the layered_media module (TODO)

• Demonstration of the functionality of the tensor_tools module

How to contribute to this project?

The GitHub website hosting the project provides several options (you will need a GitHub account, it’s free!):

• Open a discussion: This is a place to:
  • Ask questions you are wondering about.
  • Requests for specific features or share ideas.
  • Interact with the developers (still just me).
• Open and issue: This is a place to report or track bugs.
• Create a pull request: You modified, corrected or added a feature to one of the notebooks and send it for one of the developers to review it and add it to the main page.

Funding

The seed of these codes has been made possible thanks to funding from the Government of the Principality of Asturias and the Foundation for the Promotion of Applied Research in Asturias (FICYT) (grant SV-PA-21-AYUD/2021/57163) under the Asturias Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation 2018-2022 (PCTI-Asturias).

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