User: eschnett Date: 2011/04/19 07:59 PM

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File [modified]: documentation.tex Delta lines: +8 -8 =================================================================== --- trunk/doc/documentation.tex 2011-04-20 00:39:48 UTC (rev 45) +++ trunk/doc/documentation.tex 2011-04-20 00:59:23 UTC (rev 46) @@ -112,11 +112,11 @@

\begin{abstract} \noindent This thorn provides a unified EOS (Equation Of State) - interface and implements multiple analytic EOS and provides table + interface and implements multiple analytic EOS, and also provides table reader and interpolation routines for finite-temperature - microphysical EOS available from {\tt - http://www.stellarcollapse.org%7D%5C@. Currently, the implemented - analytic EOS are the polytropic EOS, the gamma-law EOS, a hybrid EOS + microphysical EOS available from + \url{http://www.stellarcollapse.org%7D. Currently, the implemented + analytic EOS are the polytropic EOS, the gamma-law EOS, and a hybrid EOS consisting of a 2-piece piecewise-polytrope with an a thermal, gamma-law component. \end{abstract} @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@

\texttt{EOS_Omni} works via the aliased-function interface, and EOS functions to be used must be declared in \texttt{interface.ccl}. -Here is an example call/{interface.ccl} entry: +Here is an example \texttt{interface.ccl} entry: \begin{verbatim} void FUNCTION EOS_Omni_press(CCTK_INT IN eoskey, \ CCTK_INT IN havetemp, \ @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ \item \texttt{eoskey = 4}: Finite-temperature microphysical EOS \end{itemize} \item \texttt{havetemp} determines whether the EOS is to be called as - a function of $(\rho,\epsilon,Y_e)$ (\texttt{havetemp = 0}), as a + a function of $(\rho,\epsilon,Y_e)$ (\texttt{havetemp = 0}), or as a function of $(\rho,T,Y_e)$ (\texttt{havetemp = 1}). \texttt{havetemp = 0} is the method of choice for analytic EOS during evolution, but at the initial data stage one may need to set @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ \end{eqnarray} (which actually ignores the temperature).

-Internally, \texttt{EOS_Omni} uses cgs units and on startup converts +Internally, \texttt{EOS_Omni} uses cgs units, and on startup converts the EOS parameters from solar units to cgs units. This conversion depends on $\gamma$ and the value of $\gamma$ at the initial data stage (\texttt{poly_gamma_ini}) is used for this. @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ component described by $\gamma_\mathrm{th}$. Polytrope 1 is soft and describes a gas of relativistic degenerate electrons with $\gamma_1 \approx 4/3$. It is used below nuclear density ($\rho_\mathrm{nuc} -\approx 2\times10^{14},\mathrm{g,cm}^{-3}$) and smoothly matched to +\approx 2\times10^{14},\mathrm{g,cm}^{-3}$), and is smoothly matched to polytrope 2 which applies above $\rho_\mathrm{nuc}$, is stiff, and models the repulsive core of the strong force above nuclear density ($\gamma_2 \gtrsim 2.5$). $K_2$ is completely determined by