
Summary. This is the documentation of the "pylsewave toolkit". The purpose of this open source software is to distribute an efficient objected-oriented tool to solve pulse wave dynamics and/or any other physical problem which can be modelled by a hyperbolic system of partial differential equations (PDEs). The core development language is cython, python and C++. The idea is that the most (computationally) expensive parts are developed in lower level languages (e.g C/C++) and; subsequently, called in high level interpreted (python) language. Moreover, the user can easily extend, modify or redistribute any part of this software with high flexibility. The presented library contains options of "elements" (e.g. for each vessel), meshes (arterial networks), different solvers (currently FD, later FE), optimisers and post-processing tools (matplotlib, VTK files, etc.).
Cython.parallel module). In future, parallel GPU processing will be added; as well, via CUDA JIT (numba).
 Mathematical problem formulation 
       Derivation of 1D hyperbolic system 
       Velocity profile 
       State equation 
       Conservational form and coupling of PDEs 
       Characteristic equations 
       Wave decomposition 
       Intensity analysis 
 Numerical methods 
       Finite Differences 
       Boundary conditions 
 Case studies 
       Upper extremity model 
       A detailed arterial network 
 Bibliography 
 Appendix A: Non-linear system at conjuctions 
       Bifurcation case 
 Appendix B: Wrapping C++ classes in pylseWave via Cython 
       ctypes 
       cython