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PlasmaFormulary

A Julia package for plasma physics formulas. This package implements a subset of the formulas found in the NRL Plasma Formulary, as well as some additional formulas taken from the PlasmaPy project.

Features

  • For functions that take a ParticleLike as an argument, we use ChargedParticles.jl package to handle particle properties. One could provide a symbolic particle name or string or a Particle object for the argument. In addition, mass number and charge number can be specified as keyword arguments for these functions.
  • For function whose arguments are Unitful quantities with unique dimensions, arguments are order independent (see PermuteArgs.jl).

Quick Example

julia> using PlasmaFormulary, Unitful
julia> debye_length(1e18u"cm^-3", 10u"eV")2.350818870322799e-8 m
julia> gyrofrequency(0.01u"T", :e) # electron gyrofrequency1.7588200107721632e9 rad s^-1
julia> plasma_frequency(1e19u"m^-3", "proton") # proton plasma frequency4.1632945624883513e9 rad s^-1

Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add("PlasmaFormulary")
  • PlasmaPy : plasmapy.formulary subpackage provides theoretical formulas for calculation of physical quantities helpful for plasma physics.
  • FusionFormulary.jl

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