Re: [FLASH-BUGS] Bug in quadratic_cartesian interpolation scheme?

From: Mike Zingale (zingale@flash.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 05 2003 - 13:36:10 CST

  • Next message: Tomasz Plewa: "Re: [FLASH-BUGS] Bug in quadratic_cartesian interpolation scheme?"

    yes, I added the fixed to the cylindrical and spherical prolongation
    routines that I wrote -- I did not get around to the cartesian ones yet,
    mainly because that would break a lot of the test suite, and I didn't want
    to deal with that at the time.

    Mike

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    On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Tomasz Plewa wrote:

    > Robi, Mike -
    >
    > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0600, Mike Zingale wrote:
    > > Hi Robi, the only problem that I am aware of with those prolongation
    > > routines is that the monotonicity constraint does not operate on the mass
    > > fractions as a whole, so it does not guarantee that they sum to one at the
    > > end -- this is something that I've been meaning to fix, but have not had
    > > the time.
    >
    > Regarding consistency of the species interpolation, I recall
    > cylindrical and spherical versions required some fixes (will appear in
    > the next release); cartesian version constraints the data by coarse
    > zones without making any distinction between variables.
    >
    > In either case, I do not think that any interpolant we currently use
    > quarantees to produce smooth perfectly monotone data. Striping seems
    > odd, though.
    >
    > Tomek
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    >



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