From 5a76904aa9e3fd70ae74f2e9e81f196d107b38de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: schnetter Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:03:36 +0000 Subject: For model Minkowski/gauge wave: Document how omega should be chosen for a diagonal plane wave. git-svn-id: http://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/cactus/EinsteinInitialData/Exact/trunk@213 e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87 --- doc/documentation.tex | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex index a10b8db..84dd3f5 100644 --- a/doc/documentation.tex +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -551,6 +551,8 @@ The parameters are \item $\lambda = \verb|Minkowski_gauge_wave__lambda|$, the wavelength \item $\delta = \verb|Minkowski_gauge_wave__phase|$, the phase shift \end{itemize} +A plane wave has $\omega = \pm \lambda$ for a wave that travels in the +$x$ direction, and $\omega = \pm \lambda \sqrt{2}$ for a diagonal wave. If the Boolean parameter \verb|Minkowski_gauge_wave__diagonal| is true, then we make the gauge wave travel diagonally across the grid by the -- cgit v1.2.3