[yt-users] How the field ('gas', 'temperature') was derived?

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 06:50:54 PST 2017


Hi Dan,

This particular field is defined specifically for Gadget data in the Gadget
frontend:

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/src/09f0ef297d7068078a021fc8290d9e3519baf82d/yt/frontends/gadget/fields.py?at=yt&fileviewer=file-view-default#fields.py-72

Nathan


On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:33 AM hudan_bazhaoyu <hudan_bazhaoyu at sjtu.edu.cn>
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> I used the yt to analysis the "hdf5" files, which generated by
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> I'm curious about how the ("gas","temperature") was derived, so I
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> browsed a lots of documents on the Web, but found nothing. Please
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> About the field of ('gas','temperature'),  there is "No source
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> In my data, the field ("PartType0","InternalEnergy") is provided by
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> me, and I think the temperature should calculated by Internal Energy
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> "E" with the function: k*T = (Gamma -1)*µ*mp*E, where k = 1.38E-16
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> erg/K is Boltzmann constant, Gamma = 5/3 for adiabat particles, μ =
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> 0.6 is the corresponding mean molecular weight, and mp = 1.67E-24 g
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> is proton mass. But this result is about half of the value of
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> So what you may know is why, which one is right? I need your help!
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> Thank you a lot, and happy new year!
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> Regard,
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> Dan
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> Dan Hu
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