ET Workshop Fall 2011 EOS
EOS
Discussion about which EOS interfaces Cactus has/had:
- EOS_Base
 - EOSG_Base
 - EOS_Omni
 
Who uses what:
- EOS_Omni: ET
 - EOSG_Base: "nobody" -> to be archived
 - EOS_Base: GaTech code, Whisky_Exp -> to remain, but will be dropped from the ET thornlist
 - some version of Whisky has "own" interface to tabulated EOS
 
MHD
- MHD-Con2Prim assumes polytrope EOS
 - Code in Wiki: is general, works for polytrope EOS, but is not tested otherwise
 - Josh: implementing should not be a big problem
 - Josh: Some functions are not be fully implemented for the non-polytropic EOS_Omni code
 
Christian:
- To fix: single NS case for hot EOS
 - handle multiple composition evolutions, requires EOS tweaks
 - more important working EOS + MHD
 
MHD Con2Prim
To perform Conservative to Primitive variable conversion in MHD for a generic EOS, we need to use code that is not dependent on the adiabatic index, since it will not be constant. Some notes describing a possible way to implement a more generic Newton-Raphson routine have been uploaded, along with some code to perform this task.
Notes: File:Con2prim eosomni.pdf