[Users] coupling Llama to an evolution code

[Miguel Zilhão]

hi Ian,

yes, i guess the CartesianCoordinate thorn could work. this is not part of the ET, though, is it?

thanks,
Miguel

On 09/05/19 22:16, Ian Hinder wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
> 
> There is also the CartesianCoordinate thorn, which implements "Coordinates", but which just provides 
> a Cartesian grid.  Would this be sufficient?
> 
>> On 9 May 2019, at 00:31, Haas, Roland <rhaas at illinois.edu <mailto:rhaas at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Miguel,
>>
>> There may be two issues:
>>
>> 1. You do not have to inherit from Coordinates to use functions
>> provided by Coordinates.
>>
>> 2. You do however need to inherit to get easy access to the Jacobian
>> though. To avoid this you need to call the (low level) function
>> CCTK_VarDataPtr to get access to the Jacobian at runtime depending on
>> whether you want to use it. Then when you need an if statement based on
>> this decision to apply / not apply the Jacobian. This then is a bit
>> more complex.
>>
>> Basically (this is inspired by McLachlan):
>>
>> const CCTK_REAL *J11 = use_jacobian ?
>>  CCTK_VarDataPtr(cctkGH, 0, "Coordinates::J11") : NULL;
>> for(ijk) {
>>  CCTK_REAL phi_x = phi[i+1] - phi[i-1];
>>  CCTK_REAL phi_y = phi[j+1] - phi[j-1];
>>  if (use_jacobian) {
>>    // apply jacobian to derivatives (or so)
>>    CCTK_REAL Jac_phi_x = J11 * phi_x + J12 * phi_y;
>>    CCTK_REAL Jac_phi_y = J12 * phi_x + J22 * phi_y;
>>    phi_x = Jac_phi_x;
>>    phi_y = Jac_phi_y;
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> Yours,
>> Roland
>>
>>> hi again,
>>>
>>> i have a follow-up question regarding this. i'm following Roland's implementation of the WaveToy 
>>> code with Llama, and i'm running into the following issue.
>>>
>>> when i inherit the Coordinates thorn, the function MultiPatch_GetDomainSpecification becomes 
>>> aliased, and this becomes a problem if i want to use the same thorn and *not* use Llama. in order 
>>> words, when adding
>>>
>>>  inherits: Coordinates
>>>
>>> to a thorn's interface.ccl file, one then needs to activate the Coordinates thorn in the parfile 
>>> upon running the code whether or not one wants to use Llama. but then, if multipatch is not used 
>>> (ie, with Carpet::domain_from_coordbase = yes), the following error occurs:
>>>
>>>   void Carpet::get_domain_specification(const cGH*, int, const ivect&,
>>>   CarpetLib::rvect&, CarpetLib::rvect&, CarpetLib::rvect&): Assertion `not
>>>   CCTK_IsFunctionAliased("MultiPatch_GetDomainSpecification")' failed.
>>>
>>> is there a simple way of having a Llama-aware thorn which can also run without multipatch if so 
>>> desired?
>>>
>>> i've found a previous discussion with a similar issue 
>>> (http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2015-December/004656.html)
>>> when using CTGamma, where the suggestion was to activate the thorn CTGamma/CartesianCoordinates 
>>> when not using multipatch. i'm guessing that this thorn provides all the grid functions that 
>>> Coordinates provides?
>>>
>>> is this then the only solution, ie, creating a helper thorn with a "trivial" Coordinates 
>>> implementation?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Miguel
>>>
>>> On 22/04/19 21:45, Miguel Zilhão wrote:
>>>> thanks Roland!
>>>> this should be enough to get me started. i'll report back if i run into any difficulty.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Miguel
>>>>
>>>> On 22/04/19 13:32, Haas, Roland wrote:
>>>>> Hello Miguel,
>>>>>
>>>>> I gave a tutorial on this (for a WaveToy code) at the NCSA ET meeting:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4gNfWainf-5dGcxQzNuOUtEUFk
>>>>>
>>>>> The code is (likely, given its name) in the the "rhaas/llama" branch of
>>>>> the cactusexample repo:
>>>>>
>>>>> cd repos/cactusexamples
>>>>> git checkout rhaas/llama
>>>>>
>>>>> should get them for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours,
>>>>> Roland
>>>>>
>>>>>> hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i have a few evolution codes that i would like to make Llama-aware. one of them would be the
>>>>>> LeanBSSNMoL thorn, that was included in the latest ET release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is there a canonical procedure to do this, or any documentation that i should follow? i understand
>>>>>> that the main thing to change are the finite differencing operations... is there a standard way of
>>>>>> performing this change? or anything else i should be aware of?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> Miguel
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