quantity

Representation of quantities, i.e. of unit valued scalars and arrays. Rust library with Python bindings.

As opposed to other implementations, this crate does not attempt to achieve compile time checks on units. It is written with flexibility in mind and is able to represent arbitrarily complex units. Additional to simple scalar quantities, it also provides utilities for vector valued quantities, based on the ndarray crate, where all entries share the same unit.

Installation and Usage

Rust

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
quantity = "0.8"

Python package

Python bindings for the SI functionalities are published under the name si-units on PyPI.

Examples

Calculate pressure of an ideal gas.

let temperature = 25.0 * CELSIUS;
let volume = 1.5 * METER.powi(3);
let moles = 75.0 * MOL;
let pressure = moles * RGAS * temperature / volume;
println!("{:.5}", pressure);            // 123.94785 kPa

Calculate the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth.

let mass_earth = 5.9724e24 * KILOGRAM;
let mass_moon = 7.346e22 * KILOGRAM;
let distance = 383.398 * KILO * METER;
let force = G * mass_earth * mass_moon / distance.powi(2);
println!("{:.5e}", force);              // 1.99208e26 N

Calculate the pressure distribution in the atmosphere using the barometric formula.

let z = SIArray1::linspace(1.0 * METER, 70.0 * KILO * METER, 10)?;
let g = 9.81 * METER / SECOND.powi(2);
let m = 28.949 * GRAM / MOL;
let t = 10.0 * CELSIUS;
let p0 = BAR;
let pressure = p0 * (-&z * m * g).to_reduced(RGAS * t)?.mapv(f64::exp);
for i in 0..10 {
    println!("z = {:8.5}   p = {:9.5}", z.get(i), pressure.get(i));
}
// z =  1.00000  m   p =  99.98794 kPa
// z =  7.77867 km   p =  39.12796 kPa
// z = 15.55633 km   p =  15.31182 kPa
// z = 23.33400 km   p =   5.99192 kPa
// z = 31.11167 km   p =   2.34480 kPa
// z = 38.88933 km   p = 917.58301  Pa
// z = 46.66700 km   p = 359.07479  Pa
// z = 54.44467 km   p = 140.51557  Pa
// z = 62.22233 km   p =  54.98750  Pa
// z = 70.00000 km   p =  21.51808  Pa

Documentation

For the rust documentation, see here.

For the python documentation, see here.

Development

To build the project including the bindings to python, we use maturin.

When developing, use

maturin develop --release -m si-units/Cargo.toml

To build the python wheels, use

maturin build --release -m si-units/Cargo.toml

To build the documentation you need sphinx and some additional packages. From the root directory, type

cd si-units/docs
make html

To run the doctests, from the root directory, type

cd si-units/docs
make doctest