[Users] [Patch] allow direct calls to the Periodic thorn back-bone

[Erik Schnetter]

David

This is a good idea. How did you test this change? Did you try a
particular test case, or a certain parameter file that uses periodic
boundary conditions?

-erik

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:16 AM, David Radice <david.radice at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> Dear Einstein Toolkit users,
>
> some time ago I wrote a patch to allow external thorns to perform direct
> calls to the low-level Periodic API, as I needed to apply periodic
> conditions only on selected grid variables.
>
> I proposed this patch to Erik, who suggested to implement some
> improvements and to discuss it on the mailing list. After having
> implemented his suggestions, somehow I forgot to post the patch also
> here...
>
> The way in which it works is by simply moving the "logic" (handling of
> errors and parameters) into Periodic_ApplyBC to make BndPeriodicVI
> "thorn agnostic".
>
> Best,
> David
>
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