Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of u/erica/scratch4

Timestamp:

02/16/16 19:58:22 (9 years ago)

Author:

Erica Kaminski

Comment:

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u/erica/scratch4

@@ -21 +21 @@
 = Tracking accretion energy in the code = 
 
-At each time step i, the luminosity is computed as:
+At each time step i, the accretion energy is computed as:
 
-[[latex($L_i=\frac{G M_i dm_i}{R }$)]]
+[[latex($E=\frac{G M dm}{R }$)]]
 
-where [[latex($M_i$)]] is the mass of the sink particle at time i, [[latex($dm_i$)]] is the total accreted mass for that time step, [[latex($G$)]] is the gravitational constant in computational units, [[latex($R$)]] is the radius of the star, taken to be 1 solar radius by default, but modifiable by the user at run-time. 
+where [[latex($M$)]] is the mass of the sink particle at time i, [[latex($dm$)]] is the total accreted mass for that time step, [[latex($G$)]] is the gravitational constant in computational units, [[latex($R$)]] is the radius of the star, taken to be 1 solar radius by default, but modifiable by the user at run-time. 
 
 == Kernel ==