Copyright (c) 2018 Blake Barker, Jeffrey Humpherys, Joshua Lytle, Jalen Morgan, Taylor Paskett

stablab is a Python package implementing the functionality of STABLAB, a non-native MATLAB package. stablab provides numerical tools for studying the stability of traveling waves. Specifically, unstable spectra of traveling waves can be ruled out or located by numerically computing the Evans function.

Several scripts are provided that compute the Evans function for several example systems, including Burgers equation, the gKdV equation, and the Boussinesq equation.

Basic dependencies include Python and the standard Python library, numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. Numpy and scipy are popular open source software packages used in science, engineering, and mathematics.
These libraries consist of a Python object-oriented interface to precompiled C code, and support fast, vectorized arithmetic operations and a wide assortment of functions. Traveling wave profiles and Evans function output are visualized using matplotlib.

This software was developed on a MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, using a Python environment distributed by Anaconda (using Python 3.6).