[FLASH-USERS] Active particles support

[Robert Fisher]

Hi David :

  I suggest you take a look at Bai & Stone's recent paper, which
describes both semi-implicit and fully-implicit integration methods
for the particle-gas coupling :

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJS..190..297B

Best wishes,

-- 
Dr. Robert Fisher
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth
Department of Physics
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North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747
robert.fisher at umassd.edu
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Dave Kirsh <kirshdr at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Hi Flash Users,
> I'm working with active particles, simulating dust grains in the
> protostellar gas disk. Mainly I'm concerned with gas drag on the particles.
> I've had trouble occasionally with the stopping time for the particles
> becoming shorter than the timestep, and I was wondering if anyone has any
> suggestions for how to deal with that?
> I am also just curious about how many others are working with similar
> physics and might be able to offer the occasional help or discussion.
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Dave Kirsh
> PhD student
> McMaster University
>