Category "scientific-computing"

How to calculate the path of a particle subject to a vortex?

I'm trying to draw a path of a particle starting at (x0,y0) subject to a vortex located at (xv,yv). This is inspired by Lorena Barba's AeroPython. As stated in

Using scipy gaussian kernel density estimation to calculate CDF inverse

The gaussian_kde function in scipy.stats has a function evaluate that can returns the value of the PDF of an input point. I'm trying to use gaussian_kde to esti