diman: A Clojure Package for Dimensional Analysis

Abstract

diman (dimensional analysis) is a Clojure based scientific software package with the ability to: create dimensional formulas, create dimensional equations, check dimensional homogeneity (consistency), and derive dimensionless products.diman provides functions for each step of the analytic process for checking dimensional homogeneity or deriving dimensionless products; the repetitive operations (computational) are hidden. Users can write compound functions that perform a desired process. Thus, not only is the computational labor saved, but also introspection of the analysis is possible; the analyst is able to go through the steps of dimensional analysis.