[FLASH-USERS] co-rotating frames

Christian Tantardini ct70 at rice.edu
Thu Aug 6 05:12:31 EDT 2026


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On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM Michael Bajomo <michael at etermera.com> wrote:

> Google AI is terrible. I have found that Claude and OpenAI Codex are the
> best. They hallucinate too but are more honest and you can often cross
> check in literature if they have gone mad.
>
>
> On 6 Aug 2026, at 02:47, Sylvain Turcotte <sturcott at ubishops.ca> wrote:
>
> 
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was looking around to see if anyone used flash with a co-rotating frame
> and google AI hallucinated the following lines to include in a flash.par
> file:
>
> # Example parameter settings for a rotating binary system
> useGravity          = .true.
> useRotationalFrame  = .true.       # Activates the rotating frame source
> modules
>
> # Define the constant angular velocity vector (e.g., rotation around
> Z-axis)
> omega_x             = 0.0
> omega_y             = 0.0
> omega_z             = 1.25e-3      # Rad/sec based on the system's orbital
> period
>
> # Center of rotation (usually the center of mass of the grid/system)
> xCenterRotation     = 0.0
> yCenterRotation     = 0.0
> zCenterRotation     = 0.0
>
> I have not found anything related to these in the documentation. Is google
> AI anywhere close to something that actually exists?
>
> Best,
> Sylvain
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