[yt-users] velocity fields in yt

Elizabeth Tasker taskere at mcmaster.ca
Wed Aug 3 14:23:21 PDT 2011


Although actually, "RadialVelocity" is one place where it would also be 
an issue. It doesn't look like that is corrected for Zeus, if x-velocity 
etc are still face-centred. Am I reading that right?



Elizabeth Tasker wrote:
> I was wondering if the x-velocity, y-velocity and z-velocity fields 
> themselves had been averaged to give a cell-centred quantity. There's 
> no need for them to be so, I just needed to know before I calculated a 
> cross-product to find the rotational potential of clouds I'd picked out.
>
> Thank you for the clarification :)
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
> Matthew Turk wrote:
>> Only in the DivV and VoritictySquared fields.  Where else should it 
>> be made?
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Elizabeth Tasker 
>> <taskere at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Quick question about the baryon velocity fields in yt: has any 
>>> correction
>>> been made for the fact Zeus uses face-centred, not cell-centred, 
>>> velocities?
>>>
>>> Elizabeth
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