[Users] bug or feature?

[Ian Hinder]

On 10 Sep 2015, at 15:10, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry!  I have attached the .err file and the larger .out file is http://pastebin.com/JLPRb2sw and I hope this helps.   

Hi Comer,

In the parameter file, you have set

	Carpet::prolongation_order_time  = 2

and Carpet is simply checking the number of timelevels for all variables that have prolongation enabled, and aborting because there are some such variables with only one timelevel (3 are required).

In your case, since you are only using prolongation for multigrid, I don't think that time interpolation is required, and additional timelevels should not be necessary.  I think it would be better if Carpet only checked this if time interpolation actually happened, i.e. during the run.  

There are many aspects of timelevel handling in Cactus/Carpet which are not ideal; there was some recent work on this, but it's not quite there yet.

The first thing to try is setting

	Carpet::prolongation_order_time  = 0

This seems like the cleanest solution, in the absence of Carpet relaxing its too-strict checks, at least for a parameter file which just constructs initial data.  

If this doesn't work (something else might go wrong), take a look in the param.ccl file of CT_BrillAnalytic.  You should find a "timelevels" parameter which you can try setting to 3.

-- 
Ian Hinder
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