[Feature] Python API for driving models and supporting AI/ML integration #104
Description
Describe the solution you'd like
To make it easier to drive simulations and more complex workflows, a python API for SELF models should be created. Ideally, this should be able to be used to accomplish the following
- Creating and loading mesh and geometry information
- Querying geometry information (positions and metric terms)
- Initializing models and setting interior and boundary values
- Querying model state information ( solution, flux, etc. )
- Selecting time integrators and driving forward stepping
- Re-gridding data (for plotting purposes)
Additional context
To make this possible, it's likely that each DGModel* class will need to have some high level accessor style methods added. Additionally, we would need create wrapper functions in modules that can be compiled with f2py to expose the SELF API to python.