[FLASH-USERS] Problem running Sedov example

[John ZuHone]

Hi Klaus,

I’m working with Susan.

Your answer is a bit confusing to me. She does have a sedovSolution.dat file in her object directory, and it does have data. Is there a reason why it should not work?

John 

> On Jun 4, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Klaus Weide <klaus at flash.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Nulsen, Susan wrote:
>> 
>> Hello.
>> I'm new to Flash and I am starting by trying to run the Sedov example as
>> described online with the simple parameter file, flash.par from
>> http://flash.uchicago.edu/site/flashcode/user_support/flash_ug_devel/node13.html
> 
> 
> Susan,
> 
> Unfortunately that section of the User's Guide is not fully up to date.
> Please try adding this line to you parameter file:
> 
>  sim_profFileName        = "/dev/null"
> 
> (FLASH is trying to read an initial 1D profile from a file that does not 
> exist, if you do not set this; this feature did not yet exist when the 
> section of the U.G. was last updated.)
> 
> If you were just using the FLASH parameter file from the User's Guide -
> it is better to start with the default version that is included in
> the Sedov simulation directory, i.e., 
> 
> source/Simulation/SimulationMain/Sedov/flash.par ,
> 
> which has some additional runtime parameters that may be needed.
> 
> Klaus