Welcome to Piernik MHD code’s documentation!

Contents:

• 1. About the code & service
  • 1.1. Multipurpose MHD code PIERNIK
  • 1.2. Piernik Service (AstroGrid-PL)
• 2. User’s guide
  • 2.1. License
  • 2.2. First steps with Piernik code
    • 2.2.1. System & compilation requirements
    • 2.2.2. Code download
    • 2.2.3. Code configuration
    • 2.2.4. Simulation problem case
    • 2.2.5. Compilation
    • 2.2.6. Command line option arguments
    • 2.2.7. Input file problem.par
    • 2.2.8. Running the code
    • 2.2.9. Interrupting a code run
    • 2.2.10. Restarting the code
  • 2.3. Types of output (+)
    • 2.3.1. Data files for overall visualization (HDF5)
    • 2.3.2. Timeslice files (TSL) to draw characteristics along time
    • 2.3.3. Checkpoint files (RES, restart)
  • 2.4. Composing the code
    • 2.4.1. FLUID COMPONENTS:
    • 2.4.2. PHYSICS INCLUDED (i.e. FIELDS, INTERACTIONS):
    • 2.4.3. NUMERICAL SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS:
    • 2.4.4. DIRECTIVES ALLOCATED TO PROBLEMS:
    • 2.4.5. OTHERS:
    • 2.4.6. AUTOMATICALLY DEFINED:
    • 2.4.7. INTERNAL (NOT ALLOWED TO USE BY USER!!!):
  • 2.5. Runtime Parameters Descriptions
  • 2.6. Setting up new problems
  • 2.7. Piernik Test Suite
    • 2.7.1. 1D tests
    • 2.7.2. 2D tests
    • 2.7.3. 3D tests
  • 2.8. How to report bugs in Piernik?
• 3. Programmer’s guide
  • 3.1. New modules programming rules
    • 3.1.1. Syntax comments
    • 3.1.2. Programming style
    • 3.1.3. Committing changes
• 4. Miscellanea
  • 4.1. Scalability & performance
    • 4.1.1. Scalability tests
    • 4.1.2. Domain Decomposition
    • 4.1.3. 32-bit and 64-bit issues
  • 4.2. Presentations & papers
  • 4.3. Statistics
    • 4.3.1. Ohloh stats for Piernik
    • 4.3.2. Bugs found in Fortran compilers during Piernik development
• 5. Concepts & index
  • 5.1. Precompiler settings index
  • 5.2. Namelist parameters index