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Allow to set Beta of Moving Window

Open ax3l opened this issue 11 years ago • 7 comments

Allow the use to set the beta of the moving window

  • range [0.0:1.0]
  • default value: 1.0

ax3l avatar Apr 28 '14 12:04 ax3l

cool :+1:

PrometheusPi avatar Apr 28 '14 13:04 PrometheusPi

Yeah, super cool :) What's beta?

f-schmitt avatar May 13 '14 19:05 f-schmitt

Beta is just he normalized speed of the moving window in respect to the speed of light. Since the range of this is usually [ 0.0; 1.0 ] it works as a quite convenient scaling: \beta=v/c

Right now, our beta is 1.0 (=c).

Some processes, like ion acoustic shocks, propagate slower than the vacuum speed of light. In that case one might like to track the shock front and not a fast propagating laser.

ax3l avatar May 13 '14 20:05 ax3l

Got it!

f-schmitt avatar May 14 '14 06:05 f-schmitt

after several refactorings that is easy to implement by now and really needed. The only thing that needs to be changed is the addition of a user-factor here.

ax3l avatar Apr 13 '17 15:04 ax3l

@steindev is this issues still relevant?

BrianMarre avatar May 30 '23 13:05 BrianMarre

Yes, this is still relevant, we have one point where all is already implemented but we do not expose the beta factor currently.

psychocoderHPC avatar May 31 '23 08:05 psychocoderHPC