<div dir="ltr">Lorenzo,<div>   I opened the hdf5 file you sent me and I indeed see the same problem (I attached a couple of snapshots). So it is not a problem of resolution. Did you check that hydro quantities and spacetime variables are initialized correctly (just in case there is a problem with the initial data file)?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bruno</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 18 gen 2024 alle ore 14:55 Lorenzo Cipriani <<a href="mailto:lorenzo.cipriani@graduate.univaq.it">lorenzo.cipriani@graduate.univaq.it</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7197195739953054452">




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 of 7/2^5 = 0.21875 using a smaller coarse grid, but the output remains unchanged.</span></div>
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<div id="m_7766451353610490557divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Da:</b> Bruno Giacomazzo <<a href="mailto:bruno.giacomazzo@unimib.it" target="_blank">bruno.giacomazzo@unimib.it</a>><br>
<b>Inviato:</b> mercoledì 17 gennaio 2024 16:44<br>
<b>A:</b> Lorenzo Cipriani <<a href="mailto:lorenzo.cipriani@graduate.univaq.it" target="_blank">lorenzo.cipriani@graduate.univaq.it</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:users@einsteintoolkit.org" target="_blank">users@einsteintoolkit.org</a> <<a href="mailto:users@einsteintoolkit.org" target="_blank">users@einsteintoolkit.org</a>><br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [Users] Star disappear from grid</span>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lorenzo,</span></div>
<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">    the perfectly cut away may be due to the fact that you may have had failures in
 con2prim on the finest levels (and maybe points got set to atmosphere), but the coarser levels were not computed yet. Your standard output reports indeed errors in c2p. You use 6 refinement levels and therefore all levels are at the same time every 2^(6-1)=32
 iterations. At iteration 4 only the 3 most inner levels would be at the same.</span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">   I would increase the resolution since your finest grid is using a resolution of
 12/2^5 = 0.375 so that you have a resolution of at least 0.24 on the finest level (level 5) and check if this solves the problem.</span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Il giorno mer 17 gen 2024 alle ore 15:41 Lorenzo Cipriani <<a href="mailto:lorenzo.cipriani@graduate.univaq.it" id="m_7766451353610490557OWA1bf6e79b-cf0f-ea66-91b3-84899bea220e" target="_blank">lorenzo.cipriani@graduate.univaq.it</a>>
 ha scritto:</span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear all,</span></div>
<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">my name is Lorenzo Cipriani, PhD student at the University of L'Aquila.</span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">My goal is to simulate a BNS merger using initial data computed from Lorene and evolved
 according to the parameter file I have attached.</span></div>
<div style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cactus reads the initial data correctly, as you can see in the image "rhoxy_initial.png"
 but, immediately after, the stars practically disappear from the grid, perfectly cut away (see image "rhoxy_it4.png").</span></div>
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 like this.</span></div>
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Department of Physics<br>
University of Milano-Bicocca<br>
Piazza della Scienza 3<br>
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