From 33550b63f53172ab1e58319e3cd902439495311e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: allen Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:28:02 +0000 Subject: documentation for spherically symmetric solutions git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusWave/IDScalarWave/trunk@48 f5a6acaf-da7d-456b-b0a8-35edbc60b392 --- doc/documentation.tex | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/documentation.tex diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb51495 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +\documentclass{article} + +\parskip = 2 pt +\oddsidemargin = 0 cm +\textwidth = 16 cm +\topmargin = -1 cm +\textheight = 24 cm + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% MANPAGE like description setting for options, use as +% \begin{Lentry} \item[text] text \end{Lentry} + +\usepackage{ifthen,calc} + +\newcommand{\entrylabel}[1]{\mbox{\textsf{#1}}\hfil} +\newenvironment{entry} + {\begin{list}{} + {\renewcommand{\makelabel}{\entrylabel} + \setlength{\labelwidth}{90pt} + \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth+\labelsep} + } + } + {\end{list}} + +\newlength{\Mylen} +\newcommand{\Lentrylabel}[1]{% + \settowidth{\Mylen}{\textsf{#1}}% + \ifthenelse{\lengthtest{\Mylen > \labelwidth}}% + {\parbox[b]{\labelwidth} % term > labelwidth + {\makebox[0pt][l]{\textsf{#1}}\\}} % + {\textsf{#1}} % + + \hfil\relax} +\newenvironment{Lentry} + {\renewcommand{\entrylabel}{\Lentrylabel} + \begin{entry}} + {\end{entry}} +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\begin{document} + +\title{IDScalarWave} +\author{Gabrielle Allen, Horst Beyer} +\date{2001} +\maketitle + +\abstract{Initial Data for the 3D Scalar Wave Equation} + +\section{Purpose} + +This thorn provides different initial data for the 3D scalar wave +equation. + +\section{Spherically Symmetric Solutions} + +The general spherically symmetric solution can be written +\begin{equation} +\Psi(r,t) = \frac{1}{r}\left(f(r+t)+g(r-t)\right) +\end{equation} +where the functions $f$ and $g$ can be freely chosen. + +Making the additional requirement of time symmetry at $t=0$, forces +\begin{equation} +f(r)=g(r) +\end{equation} +Thus if the solution at t=0 is given by $\phi(r)$, the general solution +will be +\begin{equation} +\Psi(r,t) = \frac{1}{2r}\left( (r+t)\phi(r+t)+(r-t)\phi(r-t) \right) +\end{equation} + +\section{Gaussian} + +The gaussian solution is {\it spherically symmetric} about the +origin of the Cartesian coordinate system, and is {\it time symmetric}. +The initial profile is +\begin{equation} +\phi(r) = A \exp (- (r-r_0)^2/\sigma) +\end{equation} +and is set with the parameters +\begin{itemize} + +\item {\tt amplitude} = $A$ + +\item {\tt radius} = $r_0$ + +\item {\tt sigma} = $\sigma$ + +\end{itemize} + +% Automatically created from the ccl files by using gmake thorndoc +\include{interface} +\include{param} +\include{schedule} + +\end{document} -- cgit v1.2.3