#1796: Include IllinoisGRMHD into the Toolkit, as an Arrangement -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: zachetie@… | Owner: Zachariah Etienne Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: ET_2015_11 Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: development version Keywords: GRMHD IllinoisGRMHD | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- IllinoisGRMHD, an open-source, compact rewrite of the Illinois NR group's GRMHD code, has been graciously hosted by the ET community in its BitBucket repo for more than a year, under the EinsteinEvolve arrangement.
This ticket requests official inclusion of an updated IllinoisGRMHD and closely-related thorns into the ET, as an arrangement.
IllinoisGRMHD brings a number of key new features to the Toolkit, including:
1) a staggered, vector-potential-based, AMR-compatible GRMHD scheme that automatically preserves divergenceless B-fields without the need for specialized interpolation schemes or divergence cleaning.
2) excision-less, robust modeling of GRMHD flows into black hole interiors
3) a highly-robust conservative-to-primitive solver, which checks the physicality of the conservative variables *prior* to inversion, and modifies them minimally to restore physicality.
The proposed arrangement will include: 1) IllinoisGRMHD: Core GRMHD evolution routines, some significant bugfixes since the original version currently in the ET's bitbucket repo; about 3,400 lines of code (cloc)
2) ID_converter_ILGRMHD: Converts HydroBase variables into variables IllinoisGRMHD can read (e.g., IllinoisGRMHD uses a velocity definition consistent with the magnetic induction equation, not the Valencia formulation); about 209 lines of code (cloc)
3) convert_to_HydroBase: Does the reverse of ID_converter_ILGRMHD, needed for compatibility with HydroBase-based analysis thorns; 126 lines of code.
All codes are written in C99 and are fully OpenMP-ified. You can read more about IllinoisGRMHD in its code announcement paper (CQG in press): http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07276
Additionally, a Guide to Getting Started with IllinoisGRMHD has also been written and is available at the IllinoisGRMHD webpage: http://math.wvu.edu/~zetienne/ILGRMHD/
You may now download all three of these thorns (licensed GNU GPL v2 or higher) from: math.wvu.edu/~zetienne/IllinoisGRMHD_arrangement_July_20_2015.tar.gz