Code Configuration¶
Basic operation mode¶
The default running mode (without any of the flags active) is 3d with 6 particle types; type 0 is always gas; types >0 are only gravitationally interacting.
NTYPES=6
The number of particle types used. Minimum: 6.
TWODIMS
Simulation in 2d. Z coordinates and velocities are set to zero after reading in initial conditions.
ONEDIMS
Simulation in 1d. Y and Z coordinates and velocities are set to zero after reading in initial conditions. For one dimensional simulations, refinement and derefinement is not supported. If this flag is active, the code is not MPI parallel.
ONEDIMS_SPHERICAL
Spherically symmetric 1d simulation. Use together with ONEDIMS
.
The first dimension is used as the radial coordinate.
Computational box¶
The default running mode (without any of the flags active) is a cubic box with periodic boundary conditions
LONG_X=10.0
These options can be used to distort the simulation cube along the
given direction with the given factor into a parallelepiped of
arbitrary aspect ratio. The box size in the given direction increases
by the factor given (e.g. if Boxsize
is set to 100 and
LONG_X=4
is set the simulation domain extends from 0 to 400 along
X and from 0 to 100 along Y and Z.)
LONG_Y=2.0
Stretches the y extent of the computational box by a given factor.
LONG_Z=10.0
Stretches the z extent of the computational box by a given factor.
REFLECTIVE_X=1
Boundary conditions in the x direction. 1: Reflective, 2: Inflow/Outflow; not set: periodic
REFLECTIVE_Y=1
Boundary conditions in y direction. 1: Reflective, 2: Inflow/Outflow; not set: periodic
REFLECTIVE_Z=1
Boundary conditions in z direction. 1: Reflective, 2: Inflow/Outflow; not set: periodic
Hydrodynamics¶
The default mode is: GAMMA=5/3
ideal hydrodynamics
NOHYDRO
No hydrodynamics calculation. Note that simply not including any type 0 particles has the same effect.
GAMMA=1.4
Adiabatic index of gas. 5/3 if not set.
ISOTHERM_EQS
Isothermal gas. Code uses an isothermal Riemann-solver.
PASSIVE_SCALARS=3
Number of passive scalar fields advected with fluid (default: 0).
NO_SCALAR_GRADIENTS
Disables time and spatial extrapolation for passive scalar fields. Use only if you know why you are doing this.
Magnetohydrodynamics¶
By default, code only computes hydrodynamics. Note that for comparison of MHD and hydrodynamical runs, it is sometimes useful to keep the MHD settings active and to initialize the magnetic field to zero everywhere. The equations of ideal MHD ensure that the magnetic field stays exactly zero throughout the calculation.
MHD
Master switch for magnetohydrodynamics.
MHD_POWELL
Powell div(B) cleaning scheme for magnetohydrodynamics.
MHD_POWELL_LIMIT_TIMESTEP
Additional timestep constraint due to Powell cleaning scheme.
MHD_SEEDFIELD
Uniform magnetic seed field of specified orientation and strength set up after reading in IC.
Riemann solver¶
By default, an iterative, exact (hydrodynamics) Riemann solver is used. If one of the flags below is active, this is changed. Only one Riemann solver can be active.
RIEMANN_HLLC
HLLC approximate Riemann solver.
RIEMANN_HLLD
HLLD approximate Riemann solver (required for MHD).
Mesh motion¶
The default mode is a moving mesh.
VORONOI_STATIC_MESH
Assumes the mesh to be static, i.e. to not change with time. The vertex velocities of all mesh-generating points is set to zero and domain decomposition is disabled.
VORONOI_STATIC_MESH_DO_DOMAIN_DECOMPOSITION
Enables domain decomposition together with VORONOI_STATIC_MESH
(which is otherwise then disabled), in case non-gas particle types
exist and the use of domain decompositions is desired. Note that on
one hand it may be advantageous in case the non-gas particles mix well
or cluster strongly, but on the other hand the mesh construction that
follows the domain decomposition is slow for a static mesh, so whether
or not using this new flag is overall advantageous depends on the
problem.
REGULARIZE_MESH_CM_DRIFT
Mesh regularization. Move mesh generating point towards center of mass to make cells rounder.
REGULARIZE_MESH_CM_DRIFT_USE_SOUNDSPEED
Limits mesh regularization speed by local sound speed.
REGULARIZE_MESH_FACE_ANGLE
Uses maximum face angle as roundness criterion in mesh regularization.
Refinement¶
By default, there is no refinement and derefinement. But if enabled, and unless set otherwise, the criterion for refinement/derefinement is to maintain a cell target mass.
REFINEMENT_SPLIT_CELLS
Allows refinement.
REFINEMENT_MERGE_CELLS
Allows derefinement.
REFINEMENT_VOLUME_LIMIT
Limits the volume of cells and the maximum volume difference between neighboring cells.
JEANS_REFINEMENT
Refinement criterion to ensure resolving the Jeans length of cells.
REFINEMENT_HIGH_RES_GAS
Limits the dynamical (de-)refinements of cells to cells which are
either already present in the ICs or are created with
GENERATE_GAS_IN_ICS
from type 1 particles. This adds an additional
integer quantity AllowRefinement
to PartType0 in the snapshots
indicating if a gas cell is allowed to be refined and if it is, how
often this cell has already been split: if 0, no splitting allowed. If
odd (starting at 1), the cell was already present in the ICs. If even
(starting at 2), the cell was generated from a type 1 particle. For
values of 3 or more, floor((AllowRefinement-1)/2.0)
gives the
number of times the cell was split.
NODEREFINE_BACKGROUND_GRID
The background grid will be prevented from derefining, when refinement
is used. In practice, enabling this option requires an input parameter
MeanVolume
. Derefinement is then disallowed during the run for all
cells with Volume > 0.1 * MeanVolume
.
OPTIMIZE_MESH_MEMORY_FOR_REFINEMENT
If activated some grid structures not needed for mesh refinement or derefinement are freed before the function for refinement and derefinement is called. The remaining mesh structures are freed after this step as usual.
Non-standard physics¶
COOLING
Simple primordial cooling routine.
ENFORCE_JEANS_STABILITY_OF_CELLS
This imposes an adaptive floor for the temperature.
USE_SFR
Star formation model, turning dense gas into collisionless particles. See Springel & Hernquist, (2003, MNRAS, 339, 289)
SFR_KEEP_CELLS
Do not destroy cell out of which a star has formed.
Gravity¶
If nothing is actived in this section, gravity is not included.
SELFGRAVITY
Computes gravitational interactions between simulation particles and cells.
HIERARCHICAL_GRAVITY
Uses hierarchical splitting of the time integration of the gravity.
CELL_CENTER_GRAVITY
Uses geometric centers (instead of mesh-generating points) to
calculate gravity of cells, only possible with
HIERARCHICAL_GRAVITY
.
NO_GAS_SELFGRAVITY
Switches off gas self-gravity in tree.
GRAVITY_NOT_PERIODIC
Gravity is not treated periodically.
ALLOW_DIRECT_SUMMATION
Performs direct summation instead of tree-based gravity if number of
active particles < DIRECT_SUMMATION_THRESHOLD
(= 3000 unless
specified differently)
DIRECT_SUMMATION_THRESHOLD=1000
Overrides maximum number of active particles for which direct summation is performed instead of a tree based calculation.
EXACT_GRAVITY_FOR_PARTICLE_TYPE=4
Enables direct summation gravity calculation for the given particle type.
EVALPOTENTIAL
When this option is set, the code will compute the gravitational potential energy each time a global statistics is computed. This can be useful for testing global energy conservation.
TreePM¶
If no option is actived here: no Particle-Mesh calculation is done.
PMGRID=512
Dimension of particle-mesh grid covering the domain. This enables the
TreePM method, i.e. the long-range force is computed with a
PM-algorithm, and the short range force with the tree. The parameter
has to be set to the size of the mesh that should be used, e.g. 256,
512, 1024 etc. The mesh dimensions need not necessarily be a power of
two, but the FFT is fastest for such a choice. Note: If the
simulation is not in a periodic box, then a FFT method for vacuum
boundaries is employed, using a mesh with dimension twice that
specified by PMGRID
. Should not be used with a mesh much smaller
than 256, because the TreePM approximation is only valid if the range
of the tree calculation is small compared to the box size.
ASMTH=1.25
This factor expressed the adopted force split scale in the TreePM approach in units of the grid cell size. Setting this value overrides the default value of 1.25, in mesh-cells, which defines the long-range/short-range force split.
RCUT=6.0
This determines the maximum radius, in units of the force split scale, out to which the tree calculation in TreePM mode considers tree nodes. If a tree node is more distant, the corresponding branch is discarded. The default value is 4.5, given in mesh-cells.
PM_ZOOM_OPTIMIZED
This option enables a different communication algorithm in the PM calculations which works well independent of the data layout, in particular it can cope well with highly clustered particle distributions that occupy only a small subset of the total simulated volume. However, this method is a bit slower than the default approach (used when the option is disabled), which is best matched for homogeneously sampled periodic boxes.
PLACEHIGHRESREGION=2
If this option is set (will only work together with PMGRID
), then
the long range force is computed in two stages: One Fourier-grid is
used to cover the whole simulation volume, allowing the computation of
the large-scale force. A second Fourier mesh is placed on the region
occupied by “high-resolution” particles, allowing the computation of
an intermediate-scale force. Finally, the force on very small scales
is computed by the tree. This procedure can be useful for
“zoom-simulations”, where the majority of particles (the high-res
particles) are occupying only a small fraction of the volume. To
activate this option, the parameter needs to be set to an integer that
encodes the particle type(s) that make up the high-res particles in
the form of a bit mask. For example, if types 0, 1, and 4 are the
high-res particles, then the parameter should be set to
PLACEHIGHRESREGION=1+2+16
, i.e. to the sum 2^0 + 2^1 + 2^4. The
spatial region covered by the high-res grid is determined
automatically from the initial conditions. The region is recalculated
if one of the selected particles is falling outside of the
high-resolution region. Note: If a periodic box is used, the high-res
zone is not allowed to intersect the box boundaries.
ENLARGEREGION=1.1
This is only relevant when PLACEHIGHRESREGION
is activated. The
size of the high resolution box will be automatically determined as
the minimum size required to contain the selected particle type(s), in
a “shrink-wrap” fashion. This region is expanded on the fly, if
needed (see above). However, in order to prevent a situation where
this size needs to be enlarged frequently, such as when the particle
set is (slowly) expanding, the minimum size is multiplied by the
factor ENLARGEREGION
(if defined). Then even if the set is
expanding, this will only rarely trigger a recalculation of the high
resolution mesh geometry, which is in general also associated with a
change of the force split scale.
GRIDBOOST=2
Normally, if PLACEHIGHRESREGION
is enabled, the code will try to
employ an effective grid size for the high-resolution patch that is
equivalent to PMGRID
. Because zero-padding has to be used for the
high-res inset, this gives a total mesh twice as large, which
corresponds to GRIDBOOST=2
. This value can here be modified by
hand, to e.g. 1, 3, 4, etc., to decrease or increase the size of
the high-res PM grid relative to that covering the full box. The total
mesh size used for the high-resolution FFTs is given by
GRIDBOOST*PMGRID
.
FFT_COLUMN_BASED
When this is enabled, the FFT calculations are not parallelized in terms of a slab-decomposition but rather through a column based approach. This scales to larger number of MPI ranks but is slower in absolute terms as twice as many transpose operations need to be performed. It is hence only worthwhile to use this option for a very large number of MPI ranks that exceeds the 1D mesh dimension.
Gravity softening¶
In the default configuration, the code uses a small table of possible
gravitational softening lengths, which are specified in the parameter
file through the SofteningComovingTypeX
and
SofteningMaxPhysTypeX
options, where X is an integer that gives
the “softening type”. Each particle type is mapped to one of these
softening types through the SofteningTypeOfPartTypeY
parameters,
where Y
gives the particle type. The number of particle types and
the number of softening types do not necessarily have to be
equal. Several particle types can be mapped to the same softening if
desired.
NSOFTTYPES=4
This can be changed to modify the number of available softening
types. These must be explicitly input as SofteningComovingTypeX
parameters, and so the value of NSOFTTYPES
must match the number
of these entries in the parameter file.
MULTIPLE_NODE_SOFTENING
If the tree walk wants to use a ‘softened node’ (i.e. where the maximum gravitational softening of some particles in the node is larger than the node distance and larger than the target particle’s softening), the node is opened by default (because there could be mass components with a still smaller softening hidden in the node). This can cause a substantial performance penalty in some cases. By setting this option, this can be avoided. The code will then be allowed to use softened nodes, but it does that by evaluating the node-particle interaction for each mass component with different softening type separately (but by neglecting possible shifts in their centers of masses). This also requires that each tree node computes and stores a vector with these different masses. It is therefore desirable to not make the table of softening types excessively large. This option can be combined with adaptive hydro softening. In this case, particle type 0 needs to be mapped to softening type 0 in the parameter file, and no other particle type may be mapped to softening type 0 (the code will issue an error message if one doesn’t obey to this).
INDIVIDUAL_GRAVITY_SOFTENING=2+4
The code can also be asked to set the softening types of some of the
particle types automatically based on particle mass. The particle
types to which this is applied are set by this compile time option
through a bitmask encoding the types. The code by default assumes that
the softening of particle type 1 should be the reference. To this end,
the code determines the average mass of type 1 particles, and the
types selected through this option then compute a desired softening
length by scaling the type-1 softening with the cube root of the mass
ratio. Then, the softening type that is closest to this desired
softening is assigned to the particle (choosing only from those
softening values explicitly input as a SofteningComovingTypeX
parameter). This option is primarily useful for zoom simulations,
where one may for example lump all boundary dark matter particles
together into type 2 or 3, but yet provide a set of softening types
over which they are automatically distributed according to their
mass. If both ADAPTIVE_HYDRO_SOFTENING
and
MULTIPLE_NODE_SOFTENING
are set, the softening types considered
for assignment exclude softening type 0. Note: particles that accrete
matter (black holes or sinks) get their softening updated if needed.
ADAPTIVE_HYDRO_SOFTENING
When this is enabled, the gravitational softening lengths of hydro
cells are varied along with their radius. To this end, the radius of a
cell is multiplied by the parameter GasSoftFactor
. Then, the
closest softening from a logarithmically spaced table of possible
softenings is adopted for the cell. The minimum softening in the table
is specified by the parameter MinimumComovingHydroSoftening
, and
the larger ones are spaced a factor AdaptiveHydroSofteningSpacing
apart. The resulting minimum and maximum softening values are reported
in the stdout log file.
NSOFTTYPES_HYDRO=64
This is only relevant if ADAPTIVE_HYDRO_SOFTENING
is enabled and
can be set to override the default value of 64 for the length of the
logarithmically spaced softening table. The sum of NSOFTTYPES
and
NSOFTTYPES_HYDRO
may not exceed 254 (this is checked).
External gravity¶
By default, there is no external gravitational potential.
EXTERNALGRAVITY
Master switch for external potential.
EXTERNALGY=0.0
Constant external gravity in the y-direction
NFW Potential¶
STATICNFW
Static gravitational Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) potential.
NFW_C=12
Concentration parameter of NFW potential.
NFW_M200=100.0
Mass causing the NFW potential.
NFW_Eps=0.01
Softening of NFW potential.
NFW_DARKFRACTION=0.87
Fraction of dark matter in NFW potential. The potential will be reduced by this factor (with the idea being that the complement is respresented by gas mass included explicitly in the simulation).
Isothermal Sphere¶
STATICISO
Static gravitational isothermal sphere potential.
ISO_M200=100.0
Mass causing the isothermal sphere potential.
ISO_R200=160.0
Radius of the isothermal sphere potential.
ISO_Eps=0.1
Softening of isothermal sphere potential.
ISO_FRACTION=0.9
Fraction in dark matter in isothermal sphere potential. Potential will be reduced by this factor.
Hernquist Potential¶
STATICHQ
Static gravitational Hernquist potential.
HQ_M200=186.015773
Mass causing the Hernquist potential.
HQ_C=10.0
Concentration parameter of Hernquist potential.
HQ_DARKFRACTION=0.9
Fraction in dark matter in Hernquist potential. Potential will be reduced by this factor.
Time integration¶
FORCE_EQUAL_TIMESTEPS
Variable but global timestep. Here the tightest timestep criterion evaluated for any of the particles determines the timestep of all particles.
TREE_BASED_TIMESTEPS
Non-local timestep criterion (which takes the ‘signal speed’ of hydrodynamical waves arriving from any point into account).
PM_TIMESTEP_BASED_ON_TYPES=2+4
Particle types that should be considered in setting the PM timestep.
NO_PMFORCE_IN_SHORT_RANGE_TIMESTEP
PM force is not included in short-range timestep criterion.
ENLARGE_DYNAMIC_RANGE_IN_TIME
This extends the dynamic range of the integer timeline from 32 to 64 bits.
Message Passing Interface¶
IMPOSE_PINNING
Enforce pinning of MPI tasks to cores if MPI does not do it.
IMPOSE_PINNING_OVERRIDE_MODE
Override MPI pinning, if present.
Single/Double Precision¶
DOUBLEPRECISION=1
Mode of numerical precision: not set: single; 1: full double precision 2: mixed, 3: mixed, fewer single precisions; unless extremely short of memory, we recommend to always use 1.
DOUBLEPRECISION_FFTW
FFTW calculation in double precision.
OUTPUT_IN_DOUBLEPRECISION
Snapshot files will be written in double precision.
INPUT_IN_DOUBLEPRECISION
Initial conditions are in double precision.
OUTPUT_COORDINATES_IN_DOUBLEPRECISION
Will always output coordinates in double precision.
NGB_TREE_DOUBLEPRECISION
If this is enabled, double precision is aslo used for storing the spatial neighbor node extension (the precision requirements for this are less demanding than for other quantities).
Groupfinder¶
FOF
Master switch to enable the friends-of-friends group finder in the code. This will then usually be applied automatically before snapshot files are written (unless disabled selectively for certain output dumps).
FOF_PRIMARY_LINK_TYPES=2
This option selects the particle types that are processed by the friends-of-friends linking algorithm. A default linking length of 0.2 is assumed for this particle type unless specified otherwise. The specified value corresponds to Sum(2^type) for the primary dark matter type(s).
FOF_SECONDARY_LINK_TYPES=1+16+32
With this option, FOF groups can be augmented by particles/cells of
other particle types that they “enclose”. To this end, for each
particle among the types selected by the bit mask specified with
FOF_SECONDARY_LINK_TYPES
, the nearest among
FOF_PRIMARY_LINK_TYPES
is found and then the particle is attached
to whatever group this particle is in. The specified values
corresponds to sum(2^type) for the types linked to nearest primaries.
FOF_SECONDARY_LINK_TARGET_TYPES= 2
An option to make the secondary linking work better in zoom runs
(after the FOF groups have been found, the tree is newly constructed
for all the secondary link targets). This should normally be set to
all dark matter particle types. If not set, it defaults to
FOF_PRIMARY_LINK_TYPES
, which reproduces the old behavior.
FOF_GROUP_MIN_LEN=32
Minimum number of particles (primary+secondary) in one group (default is 32).
FOF_LINKLENGTH=0.16
Linking length for FoF in units of the mean inter-particle separation (default=0.2).
FOF_STOREIDS
Normally, the snapshots produced with a FOF group catalogue are stored in group order, such that the particle set making up a group can be inferred as a contiguous block of particles in the snapshot file, making it redundant to separately store the IDs of the particles forming a group in the group catalogue. By activating this option, one can nevertheless enforce the creation of the corresponding lists of IDs as part of the group catalogue output.
Subfind¶
SUBFIND
When enabled, this automatically applies the Subfind subtructure finder to all FOF groups after they have been found. Also, the snapshot files are brought into subhalo order within each group.
SAVE_HSML_IN_SNAPSHOT
When activated, this will store the smoothing kernel lengths used for estimating the total matter density around every point, and the corresponding densities, in the snapshot files associated with a run of Subfind.
SUBFIND_CALC_MORE
Additional calculations are carried out in the Subfind algorithm,
which are not always needed.
(i) The velocity dispersion in the kernel volume used for estimating
the local density.
(ii) The DM density around every particle is stored in the snapshot if
this is set together with SAVE_HSML_IN_SNAPSHOT
.
SUBFIND_EXTENDED_PROPERTIES
Additional calculations are carried out in the Subfind algorithm, which are not always needed and may be expensive. (i) Further quantities related to the angular momentum in different components. (ii) The kinetic, thermal and potential binding energies for spherical overdensity halos.
Special behavior¶
RUNNING_SAFETY_FILE
If file ‘./running’ exists, do not start the run. Can be used to prevent that a simulation is executed twice at the same time.
MULTIPLE_RESTARTS
Keep several restart files instead of just last two copies.
EXTENDED_GHOST_SEARCH
This extends the ghost search to the full 3x3 domain instead of the principal domain. This can be needed for a successful mesh construction if the box is sampled only with a couple of cells per dimension.
DOUBLE_STENCIL
This will ensure that the boundary region of the local mesh is deep enough to have a valid double stencil for all local cells. This is not needed for the default algorithms but can be useful for code extensions.
TETRA_INDEX_IN_FACE
Adds an extra index to each entry of VF[] and DC[] to one of the tetrahedra that share this edge. This may be useful for code extensions.
NOSTOP_WHEN_BELOW_MINTIMESTEP
Simulation does not terminate when timestep drops below the specified minimum timestep size, instead it continues with this timestep floor.
TIMESTEP_OUTPUT_LIMIT
Limits timesteps such that the requested output times are honored even if their spacing is finer than the smallest timestep the code makes, i.e. the code uses the output spacing as an additional timestep criterion.
ALLOWEXTRAPARAMS
Tolerate extra parameters in the parameter file that are not used. Normally, the code aborts with a complaint if such parameters are encountered.
FIX_SPH_PARTICLES_AT_IDENTICAL_COORDINATES
This can be used to load SPH ICs that contain particles at identical coordinates.
RECOMPUTE_POTENTIAL_IN_SNAPSHOT
Needed for post-processing option 18 that can be used to calculate potential values for a snapshot.
ACTIVATE_MINIMUM_OPENING_ANGLE
This does not open tree nodes under the relative opening criterion any more if their opening angle has dropped below a minimum angle.
USE_DIRECT_IO_FOR_RESTARTS
Try to use O_DIRECT for low-level read/write operations of restart files to circumvent linux kernel page caching.
HUGEPAGES
Use huge pages for memory allocation, through hugetlbfs library. Only possible if the machine supports this.
DETAILEDTIMINGS
Creates individual timing entries for primary/secondary kernels to help in diagnosing work-load balancing.
BITS_PER_DIMENSION=42
Bits per dimension used for computing Peano-Hilbert keys. (default: 42)
Input options¶
COMBINETYPES
Reads in the IC file types 4+5 as type 3.
LOAD_TYPES=1+2+4+16+32
Load only specific types sum(2^type).
READ_COORDINATES_IN_DOUBLE
Read coordinates in double precision.
LONGIDS
If this is set, the code stores particle-IDs as 64-bit long integers. This is only really needed if you want to go beyond ~2 billion particles.
OFFSET_FOR_NON_CONTIGUOUS_IDS
Determines offset of IDs on startup instead of using fixed offset.
GENERATE_GAS_IN_ICS
Generates gas from dark matter only ICs (using particle type 1 by default).
SPLIT_PARTICLE_TYPE=4+8
Overrides splitting particle type 1 in GENERATE_GAS_IN_ICS
use sum(2^type).
SHIFT_BY_HALF_BOX
Shift all positions by half a box size after reading in.
NTYPES_ICS=6
Number of particle types in ICs, if not NTYPES
.
READ_MASS_AS_DENSITY_IN_INPUT
Reads the mass field in the IC as density.
Special input options¶
IDS_OFFSET=1
Override offset for gas cell IDs if created from dark matter particles.
READ_DM_AS_GAS
Reads in dark matter particles as gas cells.
TILE_ICS
Tile ICs by TileICsFactor (specified as parameter) in each dimension.
Output fields¶
Default output fields are: position
, velocity
, ID
, mass
,
specific internal energy
(gas only), density
(gas only)
OUTPUT_TASK
Output of MPI rank on which a certainl cell or particle resides.
OUTPUT_TIMEBIN_HYDRO
Output of hydrodynamical time-bin.
OUTPUT_PRESSURE_GRADIENT
Output of pressure gradient.
OUTPUT_DENSITY_GRADIENT
Output of density gradient.
OUTPUT_VELOCITY_GRADIENT
Output of velocity gradient.
OUTPUT_BFIELD_GRADIENT
Output of magnetic field gradient.
OUTPUT_MESH_FACE_ANGLE
Output of maximum face angle of cells.
OUTPUT_VERTEX_VELOCITY
Output of velocity of mesh-generating points.
OUTPUT_VOLUME
Output of volume of cells; note that this can always be computed from density and mass of cells, which are included by default in the output.
OUTPUT_CENTER_OF_MASS
Output of center of mass of cells (Pos
is the position of the
mesh-generating point).
OUTPUT_SURFACE_AREA
Output of surface area of cells as well as the number of faces.
OUTPUT_PRESSURE
Output of pressure of gas.
OUTPUTPOTENTIAL
This will force the code to compute gravitational potential values for all particles and cells each time a snapshot file is generated. These values are then included in the snapshot files. Note that the computation of the values of the potential costs additional time.
OUTPUTACCELERATION
Output of gravitational acceleration.
OUTPUTTIMESTEP
Output of timestep of particle.
OUTPUT_SOFTENINGS
Output of particle softenings.
OUTPUTGRAVINTERACTIONS
Output of gravitational interaction count (from the gravitational tree) of particles, which is used in the work-load balancing algorithm.
OUTPUTCOOLRATE
Output of cooling rate.
OUTPUT_DIVVEL
Output of velocity divergence.
OUTPUT_CURLVEL
Output of velocity curl.
OUTPUT_COOLHEAT
Output of actual energy loss/gain in cooling/heating routine.
OUTPUT_VORTICITY
Output of vorticity of gas.
OUTPUT_CSND
Output of sound speed. This field is only used for tree-based timesteps. Calculate from hydro quantities in post-processing if required for science applications.
Output options¶
PROCESS_TIMES_OF_OUTPUTLIST
Goes through times of output list prior to starting the simulation to ensure that outputs are written as close to the desired time as possible (i.e. also up to half a timestep size before it, as opposed to always after at the next possible time if this flag is not active).
REDUCE_FLUSH
If enabled, files and stdout are only flushed after a certain time defined in the parameter file (standard behavior: everything is flushed whenever something is written to it).
OUTPUT_EVERY_STEP
Create snapshot on every (global) synchronization point, independent of parameters chosen or output list.
OUTPUT_CPU_CSV
Output of a cpu.csv file on top of cpu.txt.
HAVE_HDF5
If this is set, the code will be compiled with support for input and output in the HDF5 format. You need to have the HDF5 libraries and headers installed on your computer for this option to work. The HDF5 format can then be selected as format “3” in Arepo’s parameterfile.
HDF5_FILTERS
Activate snapshot compression and checksum for HDF5 output.
OUTPUT_XDMF
Writes an .xmf
file for each snapshot, which can be read by the
visualization toolkit Visit (with the hdf5 snapshot). Note: so far
only working if the snapshot is stored in one file.
Re-gridding¶
These options are auxiliary modes to prepare/convert/relax initial conditions and will not carry out a simulation.
MESHRELAX
This keeps the mass constant and only regularizes the mesh.
ADDBACKGROUNDGRID=16
Re-grid hydrodynamical quantities on an oct-tree AMR grid. This does not perform a simulation. This “converts” an SPH initial condition into a (moving) mesh initial condition.