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<div>DENS_VAR is indeed volumetric, with units of g/cc. So in 2D Cartesian, FLASH assumes a “thickness” in the third dimension of 1. See `Grid_getSingleCellVol.F90`. </div>
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On Apr 6, 2018, 1:31 PM -0400, Kevin Whitley <kwhitle@umich.edu>, wrote:<br>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">I’m using 2D Cartesian geometry for my simulations and was wondering what DENS_VAR represents in this context. Is it a surface density or a volume density? Surface density makes more sense for
the 2D context, but when I analyze the simulations with yt, it reports as volume density. If I am indeed setting volume density by assigning values to DENS_VAR, what is the “thickness” FLASH is assuming?</span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Thank you in advance for your help,</font></div>
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