Installation Guide
Installation GuideΒΆ
This chapter walks you through the steps needed to install dengo.
Although it is not neccessary, it is however highly recommended users to install it a seperate environment, such that it does not mess with your current python packages and installations.
The repository of dengo locates at https://github.com/hisunnytang/dengo-merge.
git clone https://github.com/hisunnytang/dengo-merge
cd dengo-merge
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
ChiantiPy is a required package that contains the atomic database for astrophysical specroscopy data. Please read the their documentation or install-chiantipy.sh available in this repository.
Sundials CVODE is a LLNL maintained solver for stiff and nonstiff ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems (initial value problem) given in explicit form \(dydt = f(t,y)\). Current dengo templates work with CVODE with version greater thatn v5.3.0. If your reaction network has a sparse jacobian in nature, CVODE could take advantage of the sparsity, and use a sparse solver of Newton Iteration. SuiteSparse is a suite of sparse matrix algorithms that CVODE can take use to speed up the computation.
Note that CVODE and SuiteSparse are optional. While Dengo can function with the current installation, Dengo could make use of external ODE solver libraries to obtain additional performance gain.