[FLASH-USERS] problems with refinement in FLASH3.1

Seyit Hocuk seyit at astro.rug.nl
Mon May 11 15:51:28 EDT 2009


Tomek, it was not like this in Flash2.5. You can even see this if you 
use different refinement levels with the Jeans setup making 
perturbations slightly stronger. It is easily reproducible. I think 
guard cells get their information from parents and we know that they are 
not evolved in Flash.


Tomasz Plewa wrote:
> Seyit, Latif, and All -
>
> It is not advisable to place f-c (refinement) boundaries in regions of 
> strong gradients. If we do, things will very likely go badly.
>
> As a rule of thumb, we would like to have a dozen of zones per scale 
> height implying perhaps no more than 10% jumps in critical variables 
> (density, pressure, velocity).
>
> Tomek




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