Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox
Oct 2024 – Jul 2025
5 Months active
Languages Used
C++PythonJupyter Notebook
Technical Skills
Data VisualizationDocumentationNumerical SimulationScientific ComputingSoil PhysicsTutorial Development
Andrea Schnepf
PROFILE
Andrea Schnepf
Over five months, Anna Schnepf developed and maintained advanced soil-plant modeling features in the Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox repository. She built analytic and numerical soil infiltration scripts, enhanced surface flux visualization, and delivered coupled soil-root simulation notebooks using Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and scientific computing libraries. Her work included refactoring time-stepping logic, improving solver robustness for the van Genuchten module, and cleaning up outdated tutorials to streamline onboarding. By integrating data visualization and numerical methods, Anna improved model reliability and reproducibility, enabling more accurate scenario analysis and supporting both research and educational use cases with well-documented, reproducible simulation workflows.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
75%Features
Repository Contributions
13Total
Bugs
2
Commits
13
Features
6
Lines of code
3,182
Activity Months5
Your Network
63 people
Work History
July 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 performance summary: Focused on delivering a tangible, business-value feature-and-education asset—a Coupled soil-root simulation notebook with updated documentation and a path setup refactor for the CPlantBox project. The work enhances reproducibility, accelerates learning for users (notably summer school participants), and lays groundwork for future experiments with DuMux integration.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 performance summary: Focused on delivering a tangible, business-value feature-and-education asset—a Coupled soil-root simulation notebook with updated documentation and a path setup refactor for the CPlantBox project. The work enhances reproducibility, accelerates learning for users (notably summer school participants), and lays groundwork for future experiments with DuMux integration.
July 2025
March 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox focused on delivering actionable soil infiltration and evaporation tutorials, enhancing visualization, and cleaning up outdated content to maintain a current, learner-friendly repository. Business value realized includes improved onboarding for new users, clearer cross-referencing in documentation, and reduced support overhead through removal of obsolete scripts.
March 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox focused on delivering actionable soil infiltration and evaporation tutorials, enhancing visualization, and cleaning up outdated content to maintain a current, learner-friendly repository. Business value realized includes improved onboarding for new users, clearer cross-referencing in documentation, and reduced support overhead through removal of obsolete scripts.
February 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox: Key feature delivery focused on infiltration surface flux modeling. Implemented calculation and plotting of surface fluxes in the example_infiltration.py, refactored time handling with a new time step for iterative solving, and added visualization of vertical velocities at the top and bottom boundaries over time to enhance understanding of soil-surface water movement. No major bugs recorded for this period based on available data. This work improves observability, supports scenario analysis, and strengthens the reliability of water flux simulations.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox: Key feature delivery focused on infiltration surface flux modeling. Implemented calculation and plotting of surface fluxes in the example_infiltration.py, refactored time handling with a new time step for iterative solving, and added visualization of vertical velocities at the top and bottom boundaries over time to enhance understanding of soil-surface water movement. No major bugs recorded for this period based on available data. This work improves observability, supports scenario analysis, and strengthens the reliability of water flux simulations.
February 2025
January 2025
2 Commits
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox. Focused on solver robustness in the van Genuchten module to ensure reliable simulations under extreme conditions. No new features released this month; primary activity was a critical bug fix to extend numerical bounds for hmin and brentq, improving stability of matric_flux_potential and matric_potential_mfp calculations. This change reduces risk of solver failures during low matric potential scenarios and enhances the reliability of plant-water interaction models used in irrigation planning and soil research.
January 2025
2 Commits
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox. Focused on solver robustness in the van Genuchten module to ensure reliable simulations under extreme conditions. No new features released this month; primary activity was a critical bug fix to extend numerical bounds for hmin and brentq, improving stability of matric_flux_potential and matric_potential_mfp calculations. This change reduces risk of solver failures during low matric potential scenarios and enhances the reliability of plant-water interaction models used in irrigation planning and soil research.
October 2024
2 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 — Feature delivery in Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox: two new scripts for soil infiltration (analytic_solution.py and example_infiltration.py) enabling analytic and numerical solutions with plots; plus a tutorial cleanup in Chapter 6 removing an unused import. No major bugs fixed this month. Business impact: expands end-to-end soil-plant modeling capabilities, improves reproducibility and onboarding, and accelerates analysis by providing ready-to-run examples. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python scripting, plotting, DuMux-rosi binding, numerical solving of the Richards equation, and code maintenance.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month: 2024-10 — Feature delivery in Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CPlantBox: two new scripts for soil infiltration (analytic_solution.py and example_infiltration.py) enabling analytic and numerical solutions with plots; plus a tutorial cleanup in Chapter 6 removing an unused import. No major bugs fixed this month. Business impact: expands end-to-end soil-plant modeling capabilities, improves reproducibility and onboarding, and accelerates analysis by providing ready-to-run examples. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python scripting, plotting, DuMux-rosi binding, numerical solving of the Richards equation, and code maintenance.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness82.2%
Maintainability86.2%
Architecture83.0%
Performance72.4%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
C++Jupyter NotebookPython
Technical Skills
Code CleanupData VisualizationDocumentationJupyter NotebooksNumerical IntegrationNumerical MethodsNumerical SimulationPlant Physiology ModelingPython ScriptingRoot Finding AlgorithmsScientific ComputingSimulationSoil PhysicsSoil Physics SimulationSoil-Hydrology Modeling
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