List of Grid Methods

Getting Information about a Grid

The following attributes, properties, and methods provide data about the grid, its geometry, and the connectivity among the various elements. Each grid element has an ID number, which is also its position in an array that contains information about that type of element. For example, the x coordinate of node 5 would be found at grid.x_of_node[5].

The naming of grid-element arrays is <attribute>_at_<element>, where attribute is the name of the data in question, and element is the element to which the attribute applies. For example, the property node_at_cell is an array of length number_of_cells where each element of the array is the ID of the node associated with that cell. (e.g. node_at_cell[3] is the ID of the node associated with cell 3). In this case the attribute is singular since there is only one value per element. Sometimes there are multiple attributes associated with each element. In this case, the attribute is plural. For example, the faces_at_cell array contains multiple faces for each cell. Exceptions to these general rules are functions that return indices of a subset of all elements of a particular type. For example, you can obtain an array with IDs of only the core nodes using core_nodes, while active_links provides an array of IDs of active links (only). Finally, attributes that represent a measurement of something, such as the length of a link or the surface area of a cell, are described using _of_ (e.g. area_of_cell).

Fields

ModelGrid inherits from the GraphFields class. This provides ModelGrid, and its subclasses, with the ability to, optionally, store data values associated with the different types grid elements (nodes, cells, etc.). In particular, as part of __init__, data field groups are added to the ModelGrid that provide containers to put data fields into. There is one group for each of the eight grid elements (node, cell, link, face, core_node, core_cell, active_link, and active_face).