HLLD Prep I found the issue with \( \gamma \) from last week. It turns out I had made a mistake when extracting Athena’s HLLD solver and had turned their \( \gamma - 1 \) variable into just \( \ga...

HLLD Prep My first project this week was to get correct data from an HLLD solver. After extracting the HLLD solver from Athena last week I ran some shock tubes using Athena++, plotted the results ...

Particle System Tests I finished hunting (I hope) all the particle related bugs in the system test runner class and found some bugs with how particle IDs are currently implemented in Cholla. So I ...

I’ll be using a selection of MHD Riemann Problems and shock tubes to test my HLLD and overall MHD implementation so I wanted to gather some of the basics here. This post was originally written with...

Particle System Tests After some more work I discovered that particle IDs are only supported on CPUs currently. I’m waiting for the GPU implementation which should be done next week. In the meanti...

Particle System Tests This week I planned to add support for particles to the system test function and I got most of the way there before running into some snags. I was initially using disk initial...

MPI System Tests This week I added support for MPI system tests. The SystemTestRunner class now can read in an arbitrary number of HDF5 files from Cholla, concatenated one dataset at a time, and co...

Automated Testing I finally got GoogleTest to build and link properly on all the different machines after running down some module and LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues on CRC systems. So I started looking i...

Testing After getting feedback on the testing system last week I refactored the entire system testing function into a class with substantially expanded functionality. This was really helpful and ma...

Testing I spent about half of this week writing, editing, and workshopping the documentation for Cholla’s new testing system. Along the way I found a few small errors, mostly unclear naming, in the...