Meeting Update Dec.18

Triggered Star Formation Found a place in my problem module where the clump radius is put in by number not by reference. This caused a discrepancy in terms of clump radius between the problem module and the problem.data file that I used to run the simulations. Upon fixing this bug, I was able to get different distributions that can match Boss' numbers by tuning xi, clump radius, central density to match Boss' numbers (previously I always get one setup because the changes in clump radius were only in problem.data but not reflected in the problem module). In this way, I can get fairly stable setups that has the same density distribution and temperature inside the clump as Boss', although I still have to artificially increase or decrease the ambient density to what they were using. Following is one of such settings in 1/10 of clump crossing time (This setup is confirmed to stay for at least one crossing time). The ambient density is reduced by a factor of 100. The xi in this case is about 6.78 so it's still in the "unstable" regime. Currently working on preliminary runs with shocks.

2D:
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Cut:
​http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/meeting_1210/bsc.gif

LLE stuff Ported the implicit solver from a version a year ago to the latest gold version. Made the code to compile successfully and run in fixed grid, still needs work in AMR and testing (considering self-similar heat conduction test as 1-D quantitative test). Future minor change could also include making self gravity and implicit heat conduction to work together (currently you cannot turn on both at the same time). I expect to be able to have a fully functioning version by our next meeting.

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