[FLASH-USERS] Destroying particles

[Anshu Dubey]

One possibility if you don't need the time history is to set the particles'
block number to NONEXISTENT, and then sort the particles data structure
before you continue processing.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Seyit Hocuk <seyit at astro.rug.nl> wrote:

> Dear Community,
>
> I have a simple question, one that we discussed before, I think.
>
> Here goes:
> If you have a certain amount of particles, and want to reduce/destroy some
> of them during simulation, what is the best approach to do this. I alwas was
> placing them outside the box (negative x,y,z-positions), however, this
> causes occasional crashes (coming from "pt_mapFromMeshWeighted" line 146),
> and running in debug mode already was showing this. I think that putting 0
> mass is also not a good solution.
>
> Is there any other way?
>
> Kind regards,
> Seyit
>
>
>


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