Meshpy
Meshpy is a general purpose 3D beam input generator.
How to cite MeshPy?
Whenever you use or mention MeshPy in some sort of scientific document/publication/presentation, please cite MeshPy as described on the MeshPy website.
Installation
Meshpy is developed with python3.8.
Other versions of Python might lead to issues.
It is recommended to use virtual environments with python.
On Debian systems the package python3-venv has to be installed.
sudo apt-get install python3-venv python3-dev
Now a virtual environment can be created (for example in the home directory)
cd ~
mkdir opt
cd opt
python3 -m venv meshpy-env
The created virtual environment can be loaded with
source ~/opt/meshpy-env/bin/activate
From now on we assume that the virtual enviroment is loaded.
To install meshpy go to the repository directory
cd path_to_meshpy
Run the following command to install the required packages
pip install -r requirements.txt
As a last step the cython code within meshpy has to be compiled
cd path_to_meshpy/meshpy
python3 find_close_points_setup.py
Add the meshpy path to PYTHONPATH
export PYTHONPATH=path_to_meshpy:$PYTHONPATH
Optional, a path to baci-release can be given in order to run some combined
tests with baci.
export BACI_RELEASE=path_to_baci-release
To check if everything worked as expected, run the tests
cd path_to_meshpy/tests
python3 testing_main.py
Also run the performance tests (the reference time values and host name might have to be adapted in the file path_to_meshpy/tests/performance_testing.py)
cd path_to_meshpy/tests
python3 performance_testing.py
