APDLMath Sparse Matrices and SciPy Sparse Matrices

This tutorial will show how to get APDLMath sparse matrices (typically stiffness or mass matrices extracted from APDL .Full Files) into SciPy Sparse Matrices.

import matplotlib.pylab as plt

from ansys.mapdl.core import launch_mapdl
from ansys.mapdl.core.examples import vmfiles

mapdl = launch_mapdl()
mm = mapdl.math

Load and solve verification manual example 153. Then load the stiffness matrix into APDLmath.

out = mapdl.input(vmfiles["vm153"])
k = mm.stiff(fname="PRSMEMB.full")
k

Sparse APDLMath Matrix (126, 126)

Copy this APDLMath Sparse Matrix to a SciPy CSR matrix and plot the graph of the sparse matrix

pk = k.asarray()
plt.spy(pk)

<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x7f88c93e5a00>

You can access the 3 vectors that describe this sparse matrix with.

• pk.data

• pk.indices

• pk.indptr

See the scipy documentation of the csr matrix at scipy.sparse.csr_matrix for additional details.

print(pk.data[:10])
print(pk.indices[:10])
print(pk.indptr[:10])

[ 0.57249304  0.56369167 -0.28624652 -0.28184583 -0.24789676 -0.24408565
 -0.14312326 -0.14092292  0.77576289 -0.37033122]
[ 0  1  4  7 10 13 73 76  1  4]
[ 0  8 19 31 42 49 55 60 63 71]

### Create a APDLMath Sparse Matrix from a SciPy Sparse CSR Matrix

Here, we transfer the scipy CSR matrix back to MAPDL. While this example uses a matrix that was originally within MAPDL, you can load any CSR matrix to MAPDL.

my_mat = mm.matrix(pk, "my_mat", triu=True)
my_mat

Sparse APDLMath Matrix (126, 126)

Check initial matrix k and my_mat are exactly the sames: We compute the norm of the difference, should be zero

msub = k - my_mat
mm.norm(msub)

0.0

CSR Representation in MAPDL

Printing the list of objects in the MAPDL space, we find:

• 2 SMAT objects, corresponding to the k, MSub matrices,

• with encrypted names

• The my_mat SMAT object. Its size is zero, because the 3

• vectors are stored separately

• the 3 vectors of the CSR my_mat structure: MY_MAT_PTR, MY_MAT_IND

• and MY_MAT_DATA

mm.status()

APDLMATH PARAMETER STATUS-  (      6 PARAMETERS DEFINED)

  Name                   Type            Mem. (MB)       Dims            Workspace

   MY_MAT                SMAT            0.000           [126:126]               1
   QNNCPF                SMAT            0.011           [126:126]               1
   SLXVMD                SMAT            0.011           [126:126]               1
   MY_MAT_DATA           VEC             0.006           738             1
   MY_MAT_IND            VEC             0.001           127             1
   MY_MAT_PTR            VEC             0.003           738             1

MAPDL Python Matrix Correspondence

To determine which MAPDL object corresponds to which Python object, access the id property of the Python object.

print("name(k)=" + k.id)
print("name(my_mat)=" + my_mat.id)
print("name(msub)=" + msub.id)

name(k)=SLXVMD
name(my_mat)=my_mat
name(msub)=QNNCPF

stop mapdl

mapdl.exit()