Changes between Version 35 and Version 36 of PhysicsDataExplained


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    103103This section gives some brief details on how you can take advantage of cylindrical coordinates if your problem has such symmetry.
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    105 * '''''{{{iCylindrical}}}'''''  Controls whether astrobear is to use cylindrical coordinates.  The default is 0 which leaves everything in Cartesian, 1 is for no angular momentum, and 2 is for with angular momentum.
     105* '''''{{{iCylindrical:}}}'''''  Controls whether astrobear is to use cylindrical coordinates.  The default is 0 which leaves everything in Cartesian, 1 is for no angular momentum, and 2 is for with angular momentum.
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    107107Basically when iCylindrical is not 0, astrobear changes the differential operators and how each axis is treated.  In other words, astrobear switches to cylindrical coordinates.  The x-axis becomes the radial axis, the y-axis becomes the cylindrical z-axis, and the z-axis is nothing since this is only implemented for ndim = 2.