espei.error_functions package

Submodules

espei.error_functions.activity_error module

Calculate error due to measured activities.

espei.error_functions.activity_error.calculate_activity_error(dbf, comps, phases, datasets, parameters=None, phase_models=None, callables=None, data_weight=1.0)

Return the sum of square error from activity data

Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • phases (list) – List of phases to consider
  • datasets (espei.utils.PickleableTinyDB) – Datasets that contain single phase data
  • parameters (dict) – Dictionary of symbols that will be overridden in pycalphad.equilibrium
  • phase_models (dict) – Phase models to pass to pycalphad calculations
  • callables (dict) – Callables to pass to pycalphad
  • data_weight (float) – Weight for standard deviation of activity measurements, dimensionless. Corresponds to the standard deviation of differences in chemical potential in typical measurements of activity, in J/mol.
Returns:

A single float of the sum of square errors

Return type:

float

Notes

General procedure: 1. Get the datasets 2. For each dataset

  1. Calculate reference state equilibrium
  2. Calculate current chemical potentials
  3. Find the target chemical potentials
  4. Calculate error due to chemical potentials
espei.error_functions.activity_error.chempot_error(sample_chempots, target_chempots, std_dev=10.0)

Return the sum of square error from chemical potentials

sample_chempots : numpy.ndarray
Calculated chemical potentials
target_activity : numpy.ndarray
Chemical potentials to target
std_dev : float
Standard deviation of activity measurements in J/mol. Corresponds to the standard deviation of differences in chemical potential in typical measurements of activity.
Returns:Error due to chemical potentials
Return type:float
espei.error_functions.activity_error.target_chempots_from_activity(component, target_activity, temperatures, reference_result)

Return an array of experimental chemical potentials for the component

Parameters:
  • component (str) – Name of the component
  • target_activity (numpy.ndarray) – Array of experimental activities
  • temperatures (numpy.ndarray) – Ravelled array of temperatures (of same size as exp_activity).
  • reference_result (xarray.Dataset) – Dataset of the equilibrium reference state. Should contain a singe point calculation.
Returns:

Array of experimental chemical potentials

Return type:

numpy.ndarray

espei.error_functions.context module

Convenience function to create a context for the built in error functions

espei.error_functions.context.setup_context(dbf, datasets, symbols_to_fit=None, data_weights=None, make_callables=True)

Set up a context dictionary for calculating error.

Parameters:
  • dbf (Database) – A pycalphad Database that will be fit
  • datasets (PickleableTinyDB) – A database of single- and multi-phase data to fit
  • symbols_to_fit (list of str) – List of symbols in the Database that will be fit. If None (default) are passed, then all parameters prefixed with VV followed by a number, e.g. VV0001 will be fit.

Notes

A copy of the Database is made and used in the context. To commit changes back to the original database, the dbf.symbols.update method should be used.

espei.error_functions.thermochemical_error module

Calculate error due to thermochemical quantities: heat capacity, entropy, enthalpy.

espei.error_functions.thermochemical_error.calculate_points_array(phase_constituents, configuration, occupancies=None)

Calculate the points array to use in pycalphad calculate calls.

Converts the configuration data (and occupancies for mixing data) into the points array by looking up the indices in the active phase constituents.

Parameters:
  • phase_constituents (list) – List of active constituents in a phase
  • configuration (list) – List of the sublattice configuration
  • occupancies (list) – List of sublattice occupancies. Required for mixing sublattices, otherwise takes no effect.
Returns:

Return type:

numpy.ndarray

Notes

Errors will be raised if components in the configuration are not in the corresponding phase constituents sublattice.

espei.error_functions.thermochemical_error.calculate_thermochemical_error(dbf, comps, thermochemical_data, parameters=None)

Calculate the weighted single phase error in the Database

Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • thermochemical_data (list) – List of thermochemical data dicts
  • parameters (dict) – Dictionary of symbols that will be overridden in pycalphad.calculate
Returns:

A single float of the residual sum of square errors

Return type:

float

Notes

There are different single phase values, HM_MIX, SM_FORM, CP_FORM, etc. Each of these have different units and the error cannot be compared directly. To normalize all of the errors, a normalization factor must be used. Equation 2.59 and 2.60 in Lukas, Fries, and Sundman “Computational Thermodynamics” shows how this can be considered. Each type of error will be weighted by the reciprocal of the estimated uncertainty in the measured value and conditions. The weighting factor is calculated by $ p_i = (Delta L_i)^{-1} $ where $ Delta L_i $ is the uncertainty in the measurement. We will neglect the uncertainty for quantities such as temperature, assuming they are small.

espei.error_functions.thermochemical_error.get_prop_samples(dbf, comps, phase_name, desired_data)

Return data values and the conditions to calculate them by pycalphad calculate from the datasets

Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • phase_name (str) – Name of the phase to consider from the Database
  • desired_data (list) – List of dictionary datasets that contain the values to sample
Returns:

Dictionary of condition kwargs for pycalphad’s calculate and the expected values

Return type:

dict

espei.error_functions.thermochemical_error.get_thermochemical_data(dbf, comps, phases, datasets, weight_dict=None, symbols_to_fit=None, make_callables=True)
Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • phases (list) – List of phases to consider
  • datasets (espei.utils.PickleableTinyDB) – Datasets that contain single phase data
  • weight_dict (dict) – Dictionary of weights for each data type, e.g. {‘HM’: 200, ‘SM’: 2}
  • symbols_to_fit (list) – Parameters to fit. Used to build the models and callables.
Returns:

List of data dictionaries to iterate over

Return type:

list

espei.error_functions.zpf_error module

Calculate driving_force due to ZPF tielines.

The general approach is similar to the PanOptimizer rough search method.

  1. With all phases active, calculate the chemical potentials of the tieline endpoints via equilibrium calls. Done in estimate_hyperplane.
  2. Calculate the target chemical potentials, which are the average chemical potentials of all of the current chemical potentials at the tieline endpoints.
  3. Calculate the current chemical potentials of the desired single phases
  4. The error is the difference between these chemical potentials

There’s some special handling for tieline endpoints where we do not know the composition conditions to calculate chemical potentials at.

espei.error_functions.zpf_error.calculate_zpf_error(dbf, phases, zpf_data, phase_models=None, parameters=None, callables=None, data_weight=1.0)

Calculate error due to phase equilibria data

Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • phases (list) – List of phases to consider
  • zpf_data (list) – Datasets that contain single phase data
  • phase_models (dict) – Phase models to pass to pycalphad calculations
  • parameters (dict) – Dictionary of symbols that will be overridden in pycalphad.equilibrium
  • callables (dict) – Callables to pass to pycalphad
  • data_weight (float) – Scaling factor for the standard deviation of the measurement of a tieline which has units J/mol. The standard deviation is 1000 J/mol and the scaling factor defaults to 1.0.
Returns:

Log probability of ZPF error

Return type:

float

Notes

The physical picture of the standard deviation is that we’ve measured a ZPF line. That line corresponds to some equilibrium chemical potentials. The standard deviation is the standard deviation of those ‘measured’ chemical potentials.

espei.error_functions.zpf_error.driving_force_to_hyperplane(dbf, comps, current_phase, cond_dict, target_hyperplane_chempots, phase_flag, phase_models, parameters, callables=None)

Calculate the integrated driving force between the current hyperplane and target hyperplane.

Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • current_phase (list) – List of phases to consider
  • phase_models (dict) – Phase models to pass to pycalphad calculations
  • parameters (dict) – Dictionary of symbols that will be overridden in pycalphad.equilibrium
  • callables (dict) – Callables to pass to pycalphad
  • cond_dict (dict) – Dictionary of state variables, e.g. v.P and v.T, v.X
  • target_hyperplane_chempots (numpy.ndarray) – Array of chemical potentials for target equilibrium hyperplane.
  • phase_flag (str) – String of phase flag, e.g. ‘disordered’.
  • phase_models – Phase models to pass to pycalphad calculations
  • parameters – Dictionary of symbols that will be overridden in pycalphad.equilibrium
Returns:

Single value for the total error between the current hyperplane and target hyperplane.

Return type:

float

espei.error_functions.zpf_error.estimate_hyperplane(dbf, comps, phases, current_statevars, comp_dicts, phase_models, parameters, callables=None)

Calculate the chemical potentials for the target hyperplane, one vertex at a time

Parameters:
  • dbf (pycalphad.Database) – Database to consider
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • phases (list) – List of phases to consider
  • current_statevars (dict) – Dictionary of state variables, e.g. v.P and v.T, no compositions.
  • comp_dicts (list) – List of tuples of composition dictionaries and phase flags. Composition dictionaries are pycalphad variable dicts and the flag is a string e.g. ({v.X(‘CU’): 0.5}, ‘disordered’)
  • phase_models (dict) – Phase models to pass to pycalphad calculations
  • parameters (dict) – Dictionary of symbols that will be overridden in pycalphad.equilibrium
  • callables (dict) – Callables to pass to pycalphad
Returns:

Array of chemical potentials.

Return type:

numpy.ndarray

Notes

This takes just one set of phase equilibria, e.g. a dataset point of [[‘FCC_A1’, [‘CU’], [0.1]], [‘LAVES_C15’, [‘CU’], [0.3]]] and calculates the chemical potentials given all the phases possible at the given compositions. Then the average chemical potentials of each end point are taken as the target hyperplane for the given equilibria.

espei.error_functions.zpf_error.get_zpf_context(dbf, comps, phases, datasets)
Parameters:
  • dbf (Database) –
  • comps (list of str) – List of components to fit
  • phases (list of str) – List of phase names that will be fit
  • datasets (espei.utils.PickleableTinyDB) –
Returns:

List of data dictionaries with keys weight, data_comps and phase_regions. data_comps are the components for the data in question. phase_regions are the ZPF phases, state variables and compositions

Return type:

list

espei.error_functions.zpf_error.get_zpf_data(comps, phases, datasets)

Return the ZPF data used in the calculation of ZPF error

Parameters:
  • comps (list) – List of active component names
  • phases (list) – List of phases to consider
  • datasets (espei.utils.PickleableTinyDB) – Datasets that contain single phase data
Returns:

List of data dictionaries with keys weight, data_comps and phase_regions. data_comps are the components for the data in question. phase_regions are the ZPF phases, state variables and compositions.

Return type:

list

Module contents

Functions for calculating error.