Getting started

Create a python virtual environment

Create a virtual environment for your project

MacOS/Linux

$ python -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

Windows

python -m venv .env
.env\Scripts\activate

Install prerequisites

mvmlib requires numpy make sure you have it installed

$ pip install numpy

Then install mvmlib using the command

$ pip install mvmlib

• This will install the required dependencies:

  • matplotlib for visualization tools.

  • pyDOE for design space exploration.

  • scikit-fuzzy for fuzzy logic modeling .

  • smt for surrogate modeling of expensive models.

  • multiprocess for parallel processing of certain MVM computations.

Testing the installation

Start a python console and try the following command

>>> from mvm import *

This will make sure that all modules can be loaded properly and no dependencies are missing.

Notebooks

Several notebooks are available to get up to speed with SMT:

• Quick tutorial on probability density functions

• An example that involves fuzzy-logic modeling

• A full-blown engineering example

Uninstalling mvmlib

Simply use the following command

$ pip uninstall mvmlib