[Developers] Problems with 4D grid arrays

Yaakoub El Khamra yye00 at cct.lsu.edu
Tue Mar 25 07:41:33 CST 2008


I second this patch. It would make life easier for people using the
Funwave thorns (coastal modeling code).

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:43 +0100, Thomas Radke wrote:
> Erik Schnetter wrote:
> > Cactus has currently a problem if one uses grid arrays of dimension D  
> > while grid functions have a dimension less than D.  During  
> > initialisation, Cactus sets cctk_dim to the largest dimension of all  
> > grid variables in all active thorns.  This is arguably wrong; cctk_dim  
> > should be set to the (maximum) dimension of the grid functions.
> > 
> > The enclosed patch adds a new function to the flesh CCTK_MaxGFDim  
> > which returns the (maximum) dimension of all grid functions.  This  
> > function is used to set cctk_dim.
> 
> The patch looks good to me.
> 



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