1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
|
"""
================
Trigradient Demo
================
Demonstrates computation of gradient with
`matplotlib.tri.CubicTriInterpolator`.
"""
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.tri import (CubicTriInterpolator, Triangulation,
UniformTriRefiner)
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Electrical potential of a dipole
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def dipole_potential(x, y):
"""The electric dipole potential V, at position *x*, *y*."""
r_sq = x**2 + y**2
theta = np.arctan2(y, x)
z = np.cos(theta)/r_sq
return (np.max(z) - z) / (np.max(z) - np.min(z))
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Creating a Triangulation
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# First create the x and y coordinates of the points.
n_angles = 30
n_radii = 10
min_radius = 0.2
radii = np.linspace(min_radius, 0.95, n_radii)
angles = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, n_angles, endpoint=False)
angles = np.repeat(angles[..., np.newaxis], n_radii, axis=1)
angles[:, 1::2] += np.pi / n_angles
x = (radii*np.cos(angles)).flatten()
y = (radii*np.sin(angles)).flatten()
V = dipole_potential(x, y)
# Create the Triangulation; no triangles specified so Delaunay triangulation
# created.
triang = Triangulation(x, y)
# Mask off unwanted triangles.
triang.set_mask(np.hypot(x[triang.triangles].mean(axis=1),
y[triang.triangles].mean(axis=1))
< min_radius)
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Refine data - interpolates the electrical potential V
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
refiner = UniformTriRefiner(triang)
tri_refi, z_test_refi = refiner.refine_field(V, subdiv=3)
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Computes the electrical field (Ex, Ey) as gradient of electrical potential
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
tci = CubicTriInterpolator(triang, -V)
# Gradient requested here at the mesh nodes but could be anywhere else:
(Ex, Ey) = tci.gradient(triang.x, triang.y)
E_norm = np.sqrt(Ex**2 + Ey**2)
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Plot the triangulation, the potential iso-contours and the vector field
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_aspect('equal')
# Enforce the margins, and enlarge them to give room for the vectors.
ax.use_sticky_edges = False
ax.margins(0.07)
ax.triplot(triang, color='0.8')
levels = np.arange(0., 1., 0.01)
ax.tricontour(tri_refi, z_test_refi, levels=levels, cmap='hot',
linewidths=[2.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0])
# Plots direction of the electrical vector field
ax.quiver(triang.x, triang.y, Ex/E_norm, Ey/E_norm,
units='xy', scale=10., zorder=3, color='blue',
width=0.007, headwidth=3., headlength=4.)
ax.set_title('Gradient plot: an electrical dipole')
plt.show()
# %%
#
# .. admonition:: References
#
# The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
# in this example:
#
# - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.tricontour` / `matplotlib.pyplot.tricontour`
# - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.triplot` / `matplotlib.pyplot.triplot`
# - `matplotlib.tri`
# - `matplotlib.tri.Triangulation`
# - `matplotlib.tri.CubicTriInterpolator`
# - `matplotlib.tri.CubicTriInterpolator.gradient`
# - `matplotlib.tri.UniformTriRefiner`
# - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.quiver` / `matplotlib.pyplot.quiver`
|
