"""Synthetic charge-storage curves from stipulated rates; opaque PNG in CWD. Tested with Python 3.14.4, NumPy 2.3.5 and Matplotlib 3.10.7. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 12, "figure.facecolor": "white"}) time_s = np.linspace(0.0, 2.0, 201) initial_charge_uc = 10.0 inflow_ua = 3.0 fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8.5, 5.3), dpi=100) for outflow_ua, color, style, label in [ (1.0, "#2268a5", "-", r"Storage: $I_{\mathrm{in}}=3$, $I_{\mathrm{out}}=1\ \mu\mathrm{A}$"), (3.0, "#b45a20", "--", r"Balanced: $I_{\mathrm{in}}=I_{\mathrm{out}}=3\ \mu\mathrm{A}$"), ]: charge_uc = initial_charge_uc + (inflow_ua - outflow_ua) * time_s ax.plot(time_s, charge_uc, style, color=color, linewidth=2.7, label=label) ax.plot(time_s[-1], charge_uc[-1], "o", color=color) ax.text(1.93, 14.18, r"$14\ \mu\mathrm{C}$", ha="right", color="#2268a5") ax.text(1.93, 10.2, r"$10\ \mu\mathrm{C}$", ha="right", color="#b45a20") ax.text(0.8, 12.4, r"Slope $=+2\ \mu\mathrm{C/s}$", color="#2268a5", fontsize=13) ax.set(xlim=(0, 2.05), ylim=(9.4, 14.8), xlabel=r"Time $t$ (s)", ylabel=r"Stored charge $Q(t)$ ($\mu$C)") ax.set_xticks([0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0]) ax.set_yticks([10, 11, 12, 13, 14]) ax.grid(alpha=0.2) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) ax.legend(loc="upper left", frameon=False, fontsize=11) fig.suptitle("Charge storage versus balanced transport", fontsize=15, weight="bold", y=0.98) fig.text(0.5, 0.91, "Synthetic model curves, not measurements; rates stipulated for 0–2 s", ha="center", fontsize=11) fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.11, right=0.96, bottom=0.14, top=0.81) fig.savefig(Path.cwd() / Path(__file__).with_suffix(".png").name, facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()