[yt-dev] RAMSES Todo List

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Glad you're excited to customize the Ramses frontend!  All of the things
you suggest sound like excellent improvements.

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, Sam Geen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I intend to try to fiddle with the RAMSES frontend when I have time/need,
> and thought it would be good to collate a list of tasks that need to be
> completed so we have a consensus on what needs to be fixed. Feel free to
> suggest things or tell me that they're already implemented if I missed them:
>
> 1) Add support for RT and ATON files, which are now part of the default
> RAMSES (I assume from the code that the cooling and grav files are already
> read)
> 2) Via 1), it might be nice to refactor the RAMSESDomainFile class a bit
> to provide a more generic Ramses file reading routine/class, since the
> formats of the files are fairly similar and in doing 1) we might get some
> copy-paste bloat.
> 3) Allow for RAMSES runs that only contain AMR & particles (i.e. pure
> N-body runs with no hydro)
> 4) Refactor the inputs to fit YT default field names (for MHD, RT and
> ATON).
> 5) Allow YT to interpret non-cosmological simulations in RAMSES, or if it
> already does, remove the warning that says this.
> 6) Romain Teyssier suggested allowing users to specify their own default
> field names for user-modified versions of RAMSES. I don't know if YT caches
> data that would allow this, but I thought I'd punt the suggestion along.
> Another option could be to allow users to expose the RAMSES namelist files
> to YT (i.e. the parameter files for starting up a run) - these contain a
> lot more information on the physics included, etc. I'd put this on a low
> priority unless someone thinks of something clever that solves this cleanly.
> 7) It could be worthwhile to implement read-on-demand if it's not already
> - sometimes the users won't query the ATON/RT/hydro/particle file or
> certain fluid fields in each file and so we wouldn't need to read those
> files in that case. This could be folded into 2).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sam
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