#591: Add harmonic shift to McLachlan -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: hinder | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Keywords: McLachlan | -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- The attached patch adds a harmonic shift condition to McLachlan. It does this by introducing a new real-valued parameter harmonicShift. This should be set to 0 for gamma-driver shift (the default, and the existing behaviour), and to 1 for harmonic shift. This is useful for code- correctness tests with the shifted gauge wave which is an exact solution of the Einstein equations in harmonic gauge. The harmonic shift equation has been tested with the shifted gauge wave exact solution and yields convergence to the exact solution.
The current way that gauge conditions is handled in McLachlan is not very elegant, and I don't think this patch should be applied as-is. I am putting it here for anyone who might find it useful.