Fixing an issue with reading tables led me to other issues with
collisions that I think are fixed right now. I am testing with the 1D
ionization model for ALPHIE and things seems to be working properly.
Finalysing first step of performance improvement focusing on reducing
iteration CPU time by improving calculation of basic element functions,
which took a lot of the CPU time
Ionization and recombination collisions have been modified to have the
right products accounting for the possibility that primary electron and
target particle have different weight.
Merging branches and fixing a number of important issues:
- Initial particles were not being assigned to the list of particles.
- List of particles was being erased every iteration, even if species
was not pushed.
These caused issues with the calculation of collisions when a species
was frozen.
Now, things should work properly. All particles are properly added to
the volume list and the list is erased ONLY if the species has been
updated.
I hope that collisions are now properly accounted for per species pair.
Now the number of collisions is calculated per species pair. This allows
that the randomly particles selected for collisions do not have
collisions assigned.
A new option has been added in which MCC are computed with its own time
step.
If no time is provided, then the minimum time step of the simulation is
employed.
Fixed an issue in which the position in triangular an thetrahedron
elements were not correctly being computed.
Other minor issues fixed:
- Units in input file now do not use '/'.
- Collisions accuratly conserve momentum.
- Minor improvements in mass calculation in collisions.
Implementation of the 0D grid to test collisional processes.
An OMP_LOCK was added to the nodes to properly write perform the
scattering (it is weird that multiple threads work in the same node at
the same time, but in 0D happens everytime).
Added a new case to test the 0D geometry.
User Manual updated with the new options.
Unification of boundary conditions into one file.
Some changes to input file for reference cases. This should have been
done in another branch but I wanto to commit to save progress and I
don't want to deal with tswitching branches right now, I'm very busy
watching Futurama.
In each iteration, number of collisions are calculate as a REAL variable
(collFrac) and stored in each cell. The number of collisions is
calculated as FLOOR(collFrac) and, if it is >1 collisions are computed
as usual. Per each collision calculated, 1.0 is removed from collFrac
Possibility to input initial species distributions (density, velocity
and temperature) via an input file for each species.
New moduleRandom includes function to generate random numbers in
different ways (still uses) the implicit RANDOM_NUMBER().
Now collisions can have a different time step.
Added species name to output names as it was starting to get confusing
in Gmsh for multiple species.
Output filenames adapted to match any number of iterations.
