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author | gundlach <gundlach@e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87> | 2002-06-06 13:22:05 +0000 |
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committer | gundlach <gundlach@e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87> | 2002-06-06 13:22:05 +0000 |
commit | 0648f3ab1a061fd4b833589ea3ff5255ba1facc6 (patch) | |
tree | a3f545ab188ab53ce45449762c9aedc46a07b02a /doc | |
parent | d610d54c14bb2e4e438dde8492f379aae13ceb08 (diff) |
Added acknowledgment to myself and Miguel as original code authors.
Added mention to what the slice evolver does, and a reference to
slice_evolver.tex.
git-svn-id: http://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/cactus/EinsteinInitialData/Exact/trunk@88 e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87
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1 files changed, 33 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex index 9c2fdb1..334f6a2 100644 --- a/doc/documentation.tex +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ \begin{document} \title{Exact} -\author{Code by many different people, \\ +\author{Original code by C Gundlach and Miguel Alcubierre, \\ +exact +solutions added by many other people, \\ this documentation by Jonathan Thornburg} % % We want CVS to expand the Id keyword on the next line, but we don't @@ -23,7 +25,11 @@ of exact spacetimes/coordinates, and even some non-Einstein spcetimes/coordinates. It's easy to add more spacetimes/coordinates: all you have to supply is the 4-metric $g_{ab}$ and the inverse 4-metric $g^{ab}$, this thorn automagically calculates all the ADM variables -from these. +from these. Optionally, the ADM variables can be calculated on an +arbitrary slice through the spacetime, using arbitrary coordinates on +the slice. Given a lapse and shift, the slice can be evolved through +the exact solution, in order to check on an evolution code, or in +order to test gauge conditions without the need for an evolution code. } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -96,6 +102,13 @@ with that if needed) is known throughout the spacetime. Cases where this is only known on one specific slice, should live in separate initial data thorns. +Optionally, the ADM variables can be calculated on an arbitrary slice +through the spacetime, using arbitrary coordinates on the slice. Given +a lapse and shift, the slice can be evolved through the exact +solution, in order to check on an evolution code, or in order to test +gauge conditions without the need for an evolution code. This is +documented in slice\_evolver.tex (which you should find in Exact/doc). + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \section{Minkowski Spacetime} @@ -694,12 +707,24 @@ These parameters are useful to hide the spherical symmetry of the metric. \section{Acknowledgments} -Many different people have contributed code to this thorn. -Jonathan Thornburg wrote most of this documentation in May 2002 based -on the comments in the code, some reverse-engineering, and querying -various people about how the code works. The description of the -Kastor-Traschen maximally charged multi-BH solutions is adapted from -the file \verb|KTsol.tex| in this same directory, by Hisa-aki Shinkai. +The original code, including the boostrot metric and the slice +evolver, was written by C Gundlach and Miguel Alcubierre. Many +different people have contributed exact solutions. Jonathan Thornburg +wrote most of this documentation in May 2002 based on the comments in +the code, some reverse-engineering, and querying various people about +how the code works. The description of the Kastor-Traschen maximally +charged multi-BH solutions is adapted from the file \verb|KTsol.tex| +in this same directory, by Hisa-aki Shinkai. + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +% +% Automatically created from the ccl files +% Do not worry for now. +% +\include{interface} +\include{param} +\include{schedule} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% |