[FLASH-USERS] SNDet example code

[Michael Sabino]

Oh, ok.

Also, where can I find the SNDet example code referred to here?:
http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Lecture%20Slides/2011ISSAC/calder_flash.pdf ?

Thanks,

Michael Sabino


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Orban, Christopher <orban.14 at osu.edu>wrote:

>  Hi Michael,
>                    At Ohio State I use some of the laser physics in the
> FLASH code. FLASH users are discouraged by the DOE from using the laser
> package with the thermonuclear burn algorithms that were developed for
> supernovae simulations. However, the code should still be useful to you
> even without without coupling those two things together. That is unless you
> are designing nuclear weapons, in which case your project would be ruined.
> :)
>                    cheers,
>                    Chris
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* flash-users-bounces at flash.uchicago.edu [
> flash-users-bounces at flash.uchicago.edu] on behalf of Michael Sabino [
> michael.rocco.sabino at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:12 AM
> *To:* flash-users at flash.uchicago.edu
> *Subject:* [FLASH-USERS] (no subject)
>
>      Hi,
>
>  I would like to introduce myself to this group. My name is Michael
> Sabino, and I am drawn here due to my fascination of simulations of
> fusion+hydro+grav+... on computers.
>
>  First things first, and my first goal is to simulate something I can
> understand, and then hopefully get across to others.
>
>  I'd looked at SpeciesList.txt to add deuterium, tritium, and helium-4 to
> simulate detonation in those materials (primarily to familiarize myself
> with some aspects of FLASH), and I believe I've added them correctly, but I
> get some unexpected results.
>
>  The main question is: What are the last and 2nd to last fields in the
> SpeciesList.txt that are identified with "??" in the
> Simulation_initSpecies.F90 comment? Are they important?
>
>  The model I am using is a modified version of CellularDetonation, where
> I added deuterium and tritium in place of carbon-12 and attempted to
> detonate a 50:50 mixture of it.
>
>  The spurious results I wasn't expecting were issues with the density in
> the grid cells showing up as a very low number and erroring out to stdout.
> So low, that it was below the smlrho and nuclearDensMin settings. I had to
> lower those. The low values of density presumably have something to do with
> the low temperature and density fusion requirements of DT and DD, which I
> configured in my upstream temperature and density profile in flash.par.
> After disabling useShockBurn and doing the above, it seemed to be
> proceeding without errors (albeit slowly, since it was evaluating the
> fusion routines a lot more), but I'll keep you up-to-date.
>
>
>  Thanks,
>  Michael Sabino
>  Michael.Rocco.Sabino at gmail.com
>
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