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<p class=""><span class="">Flash community,</span></p>
<p class="">We have a (hopefully simple) question about how to best change the numerical floors for state quantities like density and pressure. For context, we are trying to reproduce the cloud collapse problem of Foster & Chevalier (<a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...416..303F"><span class="">ADS</span></a>), which require densities of 10^-19~10^-27g/cm^3. The setup has a spherical core in the central ~1/2 of the domain with a radial profile in density. Outside the sphere is a tenuous and hotter medium (a reduced density but increased temperature so that it remains in pressure balance with the edge of the sphere). <br><span class=""></span></p>
<p class="">For example, when we initialize the data, we receive the following warning:<br><span class=""></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">WARNING after gc filling: min. unk(DENS_VAR)=0.7259099999999999388370E-20 PE=0 block=10 type=1</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">And the initial outputs show that the density has become entirely uniform after which the program crashes because of non-convergence in the Riemann subroutine. Grep-ing around, we see that there are quantities like “smallp” or “smlrho”, whose default values are 10^-10g/cm^3, indeed larger than the values we are initializing. We tried setting a value for smlrho in flash.par, but it did not appear to do anything.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Can these values be reset in flash.par versus going into the source code? We are glancing through the user guide and example problems and can not find an example of how to do this. </span></p><p class=""><span class=""></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Best,</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Doris and Aaron</span></p></div>