BaseTimeDomain Problem in SimPEG

SimPEG/Problem.py

@@ -141,3 +141,75 @@ class BaseProblem(object):
 
 
 
+class BaseTimeProblem(BaseProblem):
+    """Sets up that basic needs of a time domain problem."""
+
+    @property
+    def timeSteps(self):
+        """Sets/gets the timeSteps for the time domain problem.
+
+        You can set as an array of dt's or as a list of tuples/floats.
+        Tuples must be length two with [..., (dt, repeat), ...]
+
+        For example, the following setters are the same::
+
+            prob.timeSteps = [(1e-6, 3), 1e-5, (1e-4, 2)]
+            prob.timeSteps = np.r_[1e-6,1e-6,1e-6,1e-5,1e-4,1e-4]
+
+        """
+        assert hasattr(self, '_timeSteps'), 'The timeSteps have not yet been set.'
+        return self._timeSteps
+
+    @timeSteps.setter
+    def timeSteps(self, value):
+        if type(value) is np.ndarray:
+            self._timeSteps = value
+            del self.timeMesh
+            return
+
+        if type(value) is not list:
+            raise Exception('timeSteps must be a np.ndarray or a list of scalars and tuples.')
+
+        proposed = []
+        for v in value:
+            if Utils.isScalar(v):
+                proposed += [float(v)]
+            elif type(v) is tuple and len(v) == 2:
+                proposed += [float(v[0])]*int(v[1])
+            else:
+                raise Exception('timeSteps list must contain only scalars and len(2) tuples.')
+
+        self._timeSteps = np.array(proposed)
+        del self.timeMesh
+
+    @property
+    def nT(self):
+        "Number of time steps."
+        return self.timeMesh.nC
+
+    @property
+    def t0(self):
+        return getattr(self, '_t0', 0.0)
+    @t0.setter
+    def t0(self, value):
+        assert Utils.isScalar(value), 't0 must be a scalar'
+        del self.timeMesh
+        self._t0 = float(value)
+
+    @property
+    def times(self):
+        "Modeling times"
+        return self.timeMesh.vectorNx
+
+    @property
+    def timeMesh(self):
+        if getattr(self, '_timeMesh', None) is None:
+            self._timeMesh = Mesh.TensorMesh([self.timeSteps], x0=[self.t0])
+        return self._timeMesh
+    @timeMesh.deleter
+    def timeMesh(self):
+        if hasattr(self, '_timeMesh'):
+            del self._timeMesh
+
+
+