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Hi All,</div>
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I have been working on reproducing the results in the paper:</div>
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<span>The Einstein Toolkit: A Community Computational<br>
</span><span>Infrastructure for Relativistic Astrophysics</span> (arXiv: 1111.3344v1 {gr-qc] 14 Nov 2011)</div>
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and others as a way to teach myself how to use the Einstein Toolkit and to test out my home-built cluster computer.</div>
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I am currently working on the non-rotating TOV neutron star collapse into a BH. It works well up until it fails trying to convert conserved variables into primitive variables in grhydro (see attached tovCollapse.out file). I have tried adjusting the atmosphere
parameters (specifically <span>GRHydro::rho_abs_min = 1.e-8, up from 1.e-10).</span>, as per the suggestions in the grhydro documentation, which has helped, but I think the conversion is failing now very near where the AH will/is forming.</div>
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I have included my parameter file for the simulation (I lowered evolve K from 98 to 80 just to accelerate the collapse process).</div>
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Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.</div>
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Sincerely, Tony...<br>
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