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Material Properties

Material Properties is used to manage various physics for computing derived quantities, that are not directly evolved, but that can be calculated from the rest of the state vector.

Info

Currently the equation of state is the only implemented material property.

Species

Materials in the simulation can be composed of species, potentially each with their own material properties. Species are declared as a comma separated list of strings in the input block, and will correspondingly generate a species input block for each species in the list.

Warning

Currently only the single species is supported.

Parameters

Paramter Type Default Allowed Description
<material>
species String single Comma separated list of species.
<material/single>
Abar Real 1.00000e+00 Atomic mass for the single species
Z Real 1.00000e+00 Atomic number for the single species
eos_type String gamma [ gamma, ] Equation of state for the single species
gamma Real 1.66667e+00 Ratio of specific heats to use in gamma law for the single species