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author | jthorn <jthorn@0a4070d5-58f5-498f-b6c0-2693e757fa0f> | 2005-07-08 10:41:34 +0000 |
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committer | jthorn <jthorn@0a4070d5-58f5-498f-b6c0-2693e757fa0f> | 2005-07-08 10:41:34 +0000 |
commit | f6290b709fba33db2fc3b4b3e2a73cc7ec9e8432 (patch) | |
tree | 661d0ba81c5e29b8456910750bfb1f3fded1b444 /doc | |
parent | 6fe8b248bf94f778b20ddcc331f54c5394118d97 (diff) |
Add an option to control whether we generate a conformal metric
(StaticConformal::conformal_state = 3) or a physical metric ( = 0),
as per
http://www.cactuscode.org/pipermail/developers/2005-July/001178.html
and subsequent discussion
git-svn-id: http://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/cactus/EinsteinInitialData/IDAxiBrillBH/trunk@79 0a4070d5-58f5-498f-b6c0-2693e757fa0f
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/documentation.tex | 30 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex index 0331d01..c14f6a6 100644 --- a/doc/documentation.tex +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -17,14 +17,21 @@ % Do not delete next line % START CACTUS THORNGUIDE +% Add all definitions used in this documentation here +% \def\mydef etc + +\def\thorn#1{\textbf{#1}} +\def\arrangement#1{\textbf{#1}} + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{abstract} - Thorn IDAxiBrillBH provides analytic initial data for a vacuum + Thorn \thorn{IDAxiBrillBH} provides analytic initial data for a vacuum black hole spacetime: a single Schwarzschild black hole in isotropic coordinates plus Brill wave. This initial data is - provided for the 3-conformal metric, it's spatial derivatives, and - extrinsic curvature. + provided for \thorn{ADMBase} 3-metric and extrinsic curvature, + and optionally also for the \thorn{StaticConformal} conformal + factor and its 1st and 2nd~spatial derivatives. \end{abstract} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -216,7 +223,7 @@ together with either 4th~order Lagrange or 3rd~order Hermite interpolation (provided by thorn \textbf{AEIThorns/AEILocalInterp}) to get sufficient accuracy. -One problem with such high resolutions is that \textbf{IDAxiBrillBH} +One problem with such high resolutions is that \thorn{IDAxiBrillBH} uses an internal multigrid solver which allocates local arrays on the stack, whose size depends on the $\eta$ and $\theta$ resolutions. For high resolutions these arrays may exceed system- and/or shell-imposed @@ -233,6 +240,21 @@ and \verb|ulimit -s unlimited|. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\section{Physical or Conformal Metric} + +By default, \thorn{IDAxiBrillBH} generates initial data which uses +a nontrivial static conformal factor (as defined by thorn +\thorn{StaticConformal}). This initial data includes both the +conformal factor and its 1st and 2nd~spatial derivatives, +so \thorn{IDAxiBrillBH} sets \verb|conformal_state| to 3. + +However, if the Boolean parameter \verb|generate_StaticConformal_metric| +is set to \verb|false|, then \thorn{IDAxiBrillBH} generates a pure +physical 3-metric (and sets \verb|conformal_state| to 0). This is +useful if you have other thorns which don't grok a conformal metric. + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + \section{Debugging Parameters} This thorn has options to print very detailed debugging information |