[FLASH-USERS] Restarting from a checkpoint file

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Beatrice Perret wrote:

> Just a question. I would like to restart a simulation from a
> checkpoint file. I have modified my flash.par by the following:
>
> restart=.true.
> checkpointFileNumber=47
> plotfileNumber=98
>
> The name of the new plotfiles and checkpoint files I am getting are
> the right ones. But the simulation starts again at t=0. Have I
> forgotten to initialize something? I think that the doc lists only the
> three items above.

Beatrice,

>From your description, it seems FLASH saw the
checkpointFileNumber and plotfileNumber settings
but not the restart setting.  Maybe a misspelling,
or a restart=.false. line further down in the
same parfile?

to check whether restart=.true. was actually in
effect, look at the runtime parameters section
of the log file.

Klaus