Setting up pyro

You can clone pyro from github: http://github.com/zingale/pyro2

Note

It is strongly recommended that you use python 3.x. While python 2.x might still work, we do not test pyro under python 2, so it may break at any time in the future.

The following python packages are required:

  • numpy
  • matplotlib
  • f2py (part of NumPy)
  • pytest (for unit tests)

Additionally, you will need gfortran installed on your computer, for f2py to be able to compile the code.

The following steps are needed before running pyro:

  • add pyro/ to your PYTHONPATH environment variable. For the bash shell, this is done as:
export PYTHONPATH="/path/to/pyro/:${PYTHONPATH}"
  • build the Fortran modules, by running the mk.sh script. It should be sufficient to just do:
./mk.sh
  • define the environment variable PYRO_HOME to point to the pyro2/ directory (only needed for regression testing)
export PYRO_HOME="/path/to/pyro/"

Quick test

Run the advection solver to quickly test if things are setup correctly:

./pyro.py advection smooth inputs.smooth

You should see a plot window pop up with a smooth pulse advecting diagonally through the periodic domain.