[FLASH-USERS] Maclaurin test problem

[Petros Tzeferacos]

With all that being said, Phil could you let us know more about the problem
you are having? That is: setup line, any modifications and such. I just ran
the test locally with -auto -3d and it concluded smoothly.

Best,
-- Petros


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Norbert Flocke
<flocke at flash.uchicago.edu>wrote:

> Hello Philip,
>
> The MacLaurin test problem as it is currently in FLASH4 is outdated. It
> has not been updated with the many changes that occured during the last 3
> years. The MacLaurin unit test is the one that has been designed and used
> for checking all new multipole ideas. It's main purpose for creation was to
> get rid of all the other developments in eos, hydro, etc...that happened in
> parallel and which could cause interference with the sole testing of the
> multipole routines. The MacLaurin unit test uses a customized driver
> routine that has been stripped off all the unnecessary parts (like eos and
> hydro for example).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Norbert
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Philip Chang wrote:
>
>
>> Hello FLASH users,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up the Maclaurin test problem and it doesn't appear to
>> work.  In particular, it appears that it is failing on calling the equation
>> of state, which is strange because it is just an adiabatic gamma-law EOS.
>> On the other hand, the unitTest/Multipole seems to work just fine.  Because
>> they are so similar, it is confusing why this is happening, but it appears
>> that the difference is that the evolution step in the unitTest is empty,
>> i.e., no hydro step, while the Maclaurin uses the hydro step.   This
>> suggests to me that the included Maclaurin test problem no longer works,
>> i.e., these Maclaurin test problem does not evolve.  Is this correct?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Phil
>>
>>


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