Utilities: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:47, 5 November 2014

Utilities are used to manipulate or analyse data, either during runtime or in the post-processing phase.
Almost all modifications can/should be made via a utility, rather than altering the core code (i.e. avoid editing the contents of the program/ directory wherever possible).
Utilities are kept in utils/.

To build, in Makefile, set UTIL = utilname (omitting the .f90 extension), then type

> make
> make install
> make util

The last command creates utilname.out.

It is good practice to do a 'make install' to generate a main.info file to keep alongside the executable.

main.info - Record of settings at compiletime
ic.f90 - Pre/Post-processing template.
describe_state.f90 - check time/parameters; see also main.info for outputs.
changeMp.f90 - change i_Mp value in a state file.
change_Mp_alpha.f90 - make copies of a state, or extract modes, dependent on changes in length or azimuthal symmetry.
prim2matlab.f90 - convert to matlab/visit-readable netcdf.

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+* Utilities are used to manipulate or analyse data, either during runtime or in the post-processing phase.
-* Almost all modifications can/should be made '''via a utility, rather than altering the core code''' in the <tt>program/</tt> directory.
+* '''Almost all modifications can/should be made via a utility, rather than altering the core code''' (i.e. avoid editing the contents of the <tt>program/</tt> directory wherever possible).
 * Utilities are kept in <tt>utils/</tt>.