Fortran Programming

Command-line

CoCalc supports various ways to run Fortran code. They’re provided by GNU gfortran (f95) in the Linux Terminal. You can also view an .f90 file next to a terminal, by splitting the editor window and switching to a Terminal in a Frame Editor.

Read more in the GFortran doc page.

Jupyter Notebook

A more convenient way to explore Fortran is to mix it with Python by using the f2py wrapper.

In a Jupyter Notebook running Python 3, there is also the fortranmagic extension available.

  1. %load_ext fortranmagic

  2. Write a function in a cell like that:

    %%fortran -v

subroutine f1(x, y, z)
    real, intent(in) :: x,y
    real, intent(out) :: z

    z = sin(x / 3 * y / 3) + cos(x * y)

end subroutine f1

  3. Use that new function f1 in Python, e.g. f1(2.2, -1) gives -0.8305184841156006.

Here is an example worksheet:

  1. Defining the function f1

fortran example 1

  1. Using it in a plot:

fortran example 2