# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Created on Thu Nov 2 17:58:36 2017 @author: jared's account """ from __future__ import division, print_function from pylab import * import numpy as np import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Constants M = 100 # Grid squares on a side V = 1.0 # Voltage at top wall target = 1e-6 # Target accuracy # Create arrays to hold potential values phi = np.zeros([M+1,M+1],float) #phi[0,:] = V #phiprime = empty([M+1,M+1],float) # Main loop delta = 1.0 omega = 0.8 while delta>target: delta = 0 # Calculate new values of the potential for i in range(1,M): for j in range(1,M): #if i==0 or i==M or j==0 or j==M: # phiprime[i,j] = phi[i,j] if i==30 and j>20 and j<80: phi[i,j] = 1 elif i==60 and j>20 and j<80: phi[i,j] = -1 else: difference = (phi[i+1,j] + phi[i-1,j] \ + phi[i,j+1] + phi[i,j-1])/4 - phi[i,j] phi[i,j] = phi[i,j] + (1+omega)*difference if difference>delta: delta = difference # Make a plot #plt.imshow(phi,origin='lower') #plt.show() x = np.linspace (0 ,1 , M+1 ) y = np.linspace (0 ,1 , M+1 ) # meshgrid () by default orders the arrays differently from what # I prefer . This way , (X[i,j] ,Y[i,j]) equals (x[i] ,y[j]) Y , X = np.meshgrid(y , x ) h=1/(M) Exx,Eyy = np.gradient(phi,h,h) plt.quiver(X,Y,-1*Exx,-1*Eyy) plt.title('Fields lines of Electric Field') plt.show() CS = plt.contour(X ,Y ,phi ,200) # Make a contour plot # plt. clabel (CS , inline =1 , fontsize =10) # Contour labels plt.title('Point charge in the cavity of a grounded box') CB = plt.colorbar(CS, shrink=0.8 , extend = 'both') plt.show()