PunctureTracker

Michael Koppitz <koppitz@aei.mpg.de>

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Abstract

PunctureTracker tracks black hole Punctures (singularities) by subtracting the value of the shift at the current location (the pucnture is advected with the shift) storing the location in a “SphericalSurface” one can use this information in Regrid2 to let the grid follow the BHs.

1 Parameters

PunctureTracker has the followoing options: -pt_track_punctures (boolean, that triggers action)
-pt_verbose (integer that give the verbosity level)
-pt_num_tracked (integer that tells how many Punctures are to be tracked)
-pt_initial_x (double: Initial x coordinate positions of BHs)
-pt_initial_y (double: Initial y coordinate positions of BHs)
-pt_initial_z (double: Initial z coordinate positions of BHs)
-pt_which_surface_to_take (integer: which Spherical Surface should be used to store the new puncture location)

2 Grid Scalars

-(pt_loc_x, pt_loc_y, pt_loc_z) location of puncture -(pt_shiftx, pt_shifty, pt_shiftz) value of shift at location of puncture

3 Parameters




initial_x
Scope: private REAL



Description: Initial x coordinate positions of punctures



Range Default: 0.0
*:*






initial_y
Scope: private REAL



Description: Initial y coordinate positions of punctures



Range Default: 0.0
*:*






initial_z
Scope: private REAL



Description: Initial z coordinate positions of punctures



Range Default: 0.0
*:*






modify_distance
Scope: private REAL



Description: Modify levels when the distance is less than this



Range Default: 0.0
0.0:*
zero or positive






modify_puncture
Scope: private INT



Description: Punctures to use for modification criteria



Range Default: -1
-1:9
One of the tracking punctures or negative for no modification






new_reflevel_number
Scope: private INT



Description: The new number of refinement levels



Range Default: -1
-1:*
Negative for no change






shift_limit
Scope: private REAL



Description: Shift components must be less than this in magnitude



Range Default: 1.0e10
0.0:*
zero or positive






track
Scope: private BOOLEAN



Description: Track this puncture



Default: no






verbose
Scope: private BOOLEAN



Description: speak up?



Default: no






which_surface_to_store_info
Scope: private INT



Description: A spherical surface index where we can store the puncture location



Range Default: -1
-1
don’t store puncture location
0:*
any spherical surface index






nsurfaces
Scope: shared from SPHERICALSURFACEINT



4 Interfaces

General

Implements:

puncturetracker

Inherits:

admbase

carpetregrid2

sphericalsurface

Grid Variables

4.0.1 PRIVATE GROUPS





  Group Names     Variable Names   Details    




pt_loc compact 0
pt_loc_t description Location of punctures
pt_loc_x dimensions 0
pt_loc_y distribution CONSTANT
pt_loc_z group type SCALAR
timelevels 1
vararray_size 10
variable type REAL




pt_loc_p compact 0
pt_loc_t_p description Previous location of punctures
pt_loc_x_p dimensions 0
pt_loc_y_p distribution CONSTANT
pt_loc_z_p group type SCALAR
timelevels 1
vararray_size 10
variable type REAL




pt_vel compact 0
pt_vel_t description Velocity of punctures
pt_vel_x dimensions 0
pt_vel_y distribution CONSTANT
pt_vel_z group type SCALAR
timelevels 1
vararray_size 10
variable type REAL




5 Schedule

This section lists all the variables which are assigned storage by thorn EinsteinAnalysis/PunctureTracker. Storage can either last for the duration of the run (Always means that if this thorn is activated storage will be assigned, Conditional means that if this thorn is activated storage will be assigned for the duration of the run if some condition is met), or can be turned on for the duration of a schedule function.

Storage

 

Always:  
pt_loc pt_loc_p pt_vel  
   

Scheduled Functions

CCTK_INITIAL

  puncturetracker_init

  calculate initial location of punctures

 

  Language: c
  Options: global
  Type: function

CCTK_EVOL

  puncturetracker_track

  calculate new location of punctures

 

  After: mol_evolution
  Language: c
  Options: global
  Type: function

CCTK_POSTSTEP

  puncturetracker_setpositions

  copy puncture positions to spherical surfaces

 

  Language: c
  Options: global
  Type: function