[FLASH-USERS] Problem using spherical coordinates in yt

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Michael,

Sorry you're having issues -- I can try to help you debug this, but it
might be better to bring it up on yt-users, in case folks here are using
something other than yt and don't want to follow along.  :)  I've recently
gone through and worked with a number of the non-Cartesian coordinates, and
I believe they should all be working, so let's take a shot at some
diagnostics over on the yt mailing list.

-Matt

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Michael Schlenker <mjs538 at drexel.edu>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been having issues plotting my simulation in spherical coordinates.
> My simulation runs smoothly to completion and all of my initial values are
> the values that I desire. Yet, when I use yt.ProjectionPlot( data, "dim",
> "var") to view my data, I get one of three issues depending on what "dim"
> is.
>
> If dim==theta, yt tells me that an "all NaN axis is detected" and "var is
> filled with NaNs". The plot it presents next is predictably empty.
>
> If dim==phi, yt never manages to finish plotting. It hangs up on the
> calculation.
>
> If dim== r, yt will plot "var" on a z-theta coordinate grid but the values
> are all uniformly zero.
>
> As mentioned before, my initial values are nonzero. When I retool my
> simulation to run in Cartesian coordinates, yt will make projection plots
> with values that seem reasonable for what I'd expect for all values of
> "dim" and "var" that I choose. Unfortunately, spherical coordinates are a
> requirement for my application so this fix isn't an option.
>
> To make all of this stranger, I have spherical versions of my simulation
> that yt was able to plot before but now are no longer plotable. Maybe the
> update to yt caused this but the patch notes don't seem to suggest any
> changes that would have affected me. I'm very uncertain of what the heart
> of this problem is.  If anyone has seen an issue like this before or has
> debugging suggestions, please let me know.
>
> Best,
> Mike S
>
>
>
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