AstroBEAR 2.0 New Users Guide

Chapter 1. Getting Started

Download and Installation Instructions

Compiling

Setting Up a Run Directory

How to Run AstroBEAR

Your First Run - An Example Test Problem

Chapter 2. Visualizing AstroBEAR Output

​AstroBEAR output is easily visualized with the software VisIt

Making basic plots in VisIt

Making movies of plots in VisIt

​Official VisIt user manual

Chapter 3. Furthering Your Understanding

Understanding AstroBEAR's standard out

Understanding AstroBEAR's data files !Explain Restart Options

How to control where the mesh refines !Explain order in which it is called

Computational Scales

Chapter 4. Personalizing AstroBEAR

Writing your own module !(with and/or without objects)?

How to call and customize "OBJECTS", helpful pre-written routines for AstroBEAR

How to turn on additional physics

Initial and boundary condition options

Using Processing Objects in AstroBEAR 2.0 — Create Histograms, plot totals, 2D distribution functions, projections, spectra, etc…

Chapter 5. Advanced Topics

Setting up a properly posed problem

Job Sizes

Running on Super Computer Clusters !Profile.data info? — to come

Chapter 6. Trouble-shooting

• FAQ?
• Ticket System
• Discussion Boards
• Contact Information

Appendix

Lessons and Schedule for Visiting New Users

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