Core¶

Main classes of OpenPNM¶

This module contains the main classes from which all other major objects (Network, Geometry, Physics, Phase, and Algorithm) derive.

The Base class¶

The Base class is a dict that has added methods for indexing the pores and throats, applying labels, and managing the stored data. All OpenPNM object inherit from Base so possess these methods.

Base objects, Networks, Phases, Algorithms, are assigned to all locations in the domain. The Subdomain class is a direct descendent of Base which has the added ability to be assigned to a subset of the domain. Objects that inherit from Subdomain are Geomery and Physics.

Boss objects refer to the Full Domain object it is associated with. For Geomery objects this is the Network, and for Physics objects this is the Phase that was specified during instantiation.

The associations between an object and it’s boss are tracked using labels in the boss. So a Geometry object named geom1 will put labels ‘pore.geom1’ and ‘throat.geom1’ into the Network dictionary, with True values indicating where geom1 applies.

The ModelsMixin class¶

Mixins are a useful feature of Python that allow a few methods to be added to a class that needs them. In OpenPNM, the ability to store and run ‘pore-scale’ models is not needed by some objects (Network, Algorithms), but is essential to Geometry, Physics, and Phase objects.

In addition to these methods, the ModelsMixin also adds a models attribute to each object. This is a dictionary that stores the pore-scale models and their associated parameters. When regenerate_models is called the function and all the given parameters are retrieved from this dictionary and run.

Classes

`Base`	Contains methods for working with the data in the OpenPNM dict objects
`LabelMixin`	Brief explanation of LabelMixin
`LegacyMixin`	Brief explanation of LegacyMixin
`ModelsDict`	This subclassed dictionary is assigned to the `models` attribute of all objects that inherit from the `ModelsMixin` class.
`ModelsMixin`	This class is meant to be combined by the Base class in multiple inheritence.
`ParamMixin`	Brief explanation of ParamMixin
`Subdomain`	This subclass of the Base class provides the ability assign the object to specific locations (pores and throats) in the domain.