! mathematics.jnl *sh* 11/91 - added "pretty" display at end 11/93 ! Description: demo of computation and display of "abstract expressions" ! The following example supplied by Ping Chang, PMEL postdoc, 4/90. ! Vhat and Hhat are the results of a perturbation calculation of Ping's ! in case a region setting was left by a previous command CANCEL REGION LET lg=10 LET delta=.25 LET a=y/lg LET tanh = (EXP(a)-EXP(-1*a))/(EXP(a)+EXP(-1*a)) LET d = (1+delta*(tanh-1))^.5 LET b = -1*x/d LET vhat=-1*(.5+b)*d[y=@ddc]*EXP(b)/(d*d) LET hhat=-1*(.5-b)*d[Y=@DDC]*EXP(b)/d DEFINE AXIS/X=0:4:.1 xax DEFINE AXIS/Y=-20:20:.2/unit="ROSSBY RADIUS" yax DEFINE GRID/X=xax/Y=yax gping SET GRID gping ! Now we will produce a contour plot of VHAT over the domain. ! X=[0,4] and Y=[-20,20] contour vhat ! Now lets try it again for different values of the parameters. LET lg=25 LET delta=.5 message contour vhat ! We'll finish up with a "pretty picture" of the vhat field message LET lg=10 LET delta=.25 set window/asp=1.4/size=.6 set view upper contour/lev=(-.01,.01,.002)PEN(-.01,0,.002,4)PEN(0,.01,.002,2)DARK(0)/set vhat ppl title .3, @TR-(B+1/2)*D_y*e^B/D^2 ! big title with sub/superscripts ppl contour ! a wire frame of it at lower resolution right underneath set view lower DEFINE AXIS/X=0:4:.25 xcoarse DEFINE AXIS/Y=-20:20:1.5/unit="ROSSBY RADIUS" ycoarse DEFINE GRID/X=xcoarse/Y=ycoarse gcoarse SET GRID gcoarse wire/nolab/viewpoint=0.5,-80,.004/zscale=1500 vhat ! We will now clean up FERRET for whatever you, the user, will be doing next. ! To experiment with these mathematical functions further use the command ! SET GRID gping message SET GRID abstract CANCEL VIEWPORTS set wind/asp=.75:ax ! default aspect ratio ppl lev () (-.01,.01,.002,1) pen(-.01,.01,.002,1) ! reset PLOT+ contour colors