[pooma-dev] Particles and NewField

[Scott Haney]

Hi Julian,

We're working on making the centering cleaner to access. I would like to 
suggest that making particles work with NewField be your priority after 
6/1 so that we can excise the old field.

Scott

On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 01:35 PM, Julian C. Cummings wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> No, I have not tackled that yet.  I did study
> the issues involved and sent a note around on
> this list a few weeks ago about what I thought
> was needed.  I just need a few solid chunks of
> several hours each to sit and do the work.  I
> should have time for it after June 1st.  (If it
> is extremely pressing to do this sooner, I can
> try, but life will be better after my class and
> the Caltech ASCI research review are over.)
>
> The one thing I could use from the NewFields
> (I think I mentioned this in my earlier note)
> is a simple interface for determining if a
> Field is cell or vert centered along a given
> dimension.  This is encoded in the offset values,
> but a simple query function would be helpful.
>
> The work to be done is essentially (a) modifying
> items used by Particles to eliminate the centering
> or geometry template parameter, and (b) rewriting
> the particle/field interpolator code to handle
> centering at run-time.  Most Particles code will
> not change at all.
>
> Julian C.