Runtime Parameters Documentation for FLASH Release 3.2


Particles
    useParticles [BOOLEAN] [FALSE]
        Whether to advance particles [TRUE] or not [FALSE]

Particles/ParticlesInitialization/Lattice
    __doc__
        Lattice uniformly distributes the particles throughout physical domain
    pt_initialXMax [REAL] [1.0]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        maximum value in x for particle initialization -- by default = xmax
    pt_initialXMin [REAL] [0.0]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        minimum value in x for particle initialization -- by default = xmin
    pt_initialYMax [REAL] [1.0]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        maximum value in y for particle initialization -- by default = ymax
    pt_initialYMin [REAL] [0.0]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        minimum value in y for particle initialization -- by default = ymin
    pt_initialZMax [REAL] [1.0]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        maximum value in z for particle initialization -- by default = zmax
    pt_initialZMin [REAL] [0.0]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        minimum value in z for particle initialization -- by default = zmin
    pt_numX [INTEGER] [1]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    pt_numY [INTEGER] [1]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    pt_numZ [INTEGER] [1]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained


Particles/ParticlesInitialization/WithDensity
    pt_numParticlesWanted [INTEGER] [100]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        Number of tracer particles to use (not guaranteed to get exactly this
        many)
    pt_pRand [INTEGER] [100000]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        No idea, sadly -- some sort of big number to initialize randomness

Particles/ParticlesInitialization/WithDensity/RejectionMethod
    __doc__
        This is completely untested, don't use without further work

Particles/ParticlesMain
    particle_attribute_1 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_10 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_2 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_3 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_4 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_5 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_6 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_7 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_8 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    particle_attribute_9 [STRING] ["none"]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained

    pt_dtChangeTolerance [REAL] [0.4]
        Valid Values: 0.0 to INFTY
        EstiMidpoint does predictor step if time step change is less than this
        percentage. Set to 0 to always do Euler, set to huge number to always
        use estim. midpoints
    pt_dtFactor [REAL] [0.5]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        Factor multiplying dx/|v| in setting particle timestep limit
    pt_maxPerProc [INTEGER] [1000]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        Maximum number of particles per processor -- too small will cause a
        crash at reallocation
    pt_numAtOnce [INTEGER] [1]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        To be used when reading the particles from some file
    pt_small [REAL] [1.0E-10]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained
        If velocities are greater than this, then time stepping may be limited
    useParticles [BOOLEAN] [TRUE]
        Whether to advance particles [TRUE] or not [FALSE]

Particles/ParticlesMain/passive/EstiMidpoint2
    pt_dtChangeToleranceDown [REAL] [0.8]
        Valid Values: 0.00 to 1.01
        controls Euler vs. estimated midpoint step in
        EstiMidpoint2Passive/Particles_advance when time step increases.
    pt_dtChangeToleranceUp [REAL] [5.0]
        Valid Values: 0.00 to INFTY
        controls Euler vs. estimated midpoint step in
        EstiMidpoint2Passive/Particles_advance when time step increases.

Particles/ParticlesMapping/meshWeighting/CIC
    smearLen [INTEGER] [1]
        Valid Values: Unconstrained