[yt-users] Thickness of slices

j s oishi jsoishi at gmail.com
Fri May 28 11:06:00 PDT 2010


Shankar,

This question is ill posed. A slice in yt returns the values of each
cell in a plane orthogonal to the slice direction at a given point in
that direction. Since Enzo is a finite volume method (assuming you are
not using the Zeus hydro integrators), the quantity in a cell is
located at cell center and represents the volume average over the
cell. Thus, this plane of values has no thickness and thus neither
does a yt slice have thickness.

j

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Agarwal, Shankar <sagarwal at ku.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://yt.enzotools.org/doc/cookbook/recipes.html#simple-slice
>
> Is there a way to figure out the approximate thickness of a slice (given the overall size of the simulation box).
>
> Shankar Agarwal
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> University of Kansas
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