scotty-beam-tracing 3.0.1

Beam tracing for tokamak DBS diagnostics

Scotty

Beam tracing for tokamak DBS diagnostics

Install

Scotty can be installed using pip:

pip install scotty-beam-tracing

Note that the package to install is called scotty-beam-tracing, but the python module is just scotty.

To install the development version of scotty straight from Github:

pip install git+https://github.com/beam-tracing/Scotty

or from a local clone:

pip install .

when developing, use:

pip install -e .

Documentation

https://scotty.readthedocs.io/

Background

Description of the Scotty [1], derivation of beam tracing given in Appendix A.

References

[1] Hall-Chen, V. H., Parra, F. I., & Hillesheim, J. C. (2022). Beam model of Doppler backscattering. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 64(9), 095002.