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VoronoiMeshMedium Class Reference

#include <VoronoiMeshMedium.hpp>

Inheritance diagram for VoronoiMeshMedium:

Protected Member Functions

 VoronoiMeshMedium ()
SnapshotcreateAndOpenSnapshot () override
VoronoiMeshSnapshotvoronoiMesh () const override
Protected Member Functions inherited from MeshMedium
 MeshMedium ()
const Boxdomain () const
void setupSelfBefore () override
Protected Member Functions inherited from ImportedMedium
 ImportedMedium ()
 ~ImportedMedium ()
void setupSelfAfter () override
Protected Member Functions inherited from Medium
 Medium ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from SimulationItem
 SimulationItem ()
virtual bool offersInterface (const std::type_info &interfaceTypeInfo) const
Protected Member Functions inherited from Item
 Item ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from SiteListInterface
 SiteListInterface ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from VoronoiMeshInterface
 VoronoiMeshInterface ()

Private Types

using BaseType
using ItemType

Private Attributes

VoronoiMeshSnapshot_voronoiMeshSnapshot

Friends

class ItemRegistry

Additional Inherited Members

Public Types inherited from MeshMedium
enum class  MassType : int {
  MassDensity , Mass , MassDensityAndMass , NumberDensity ,
  Number , NumberDensityAndNumber
}
Public Member Functions inherited from MeshMedium
MassType massType () const
double maxX () const
double maxY () const
double maxZ () const
double minX () const
double minY () const
double minZ () const
Public Member Functions inherited from ImportedMedium
Vec bulkVelocity (Position bfr) const override
int dimension () const override
string filename () const
Position generatePosition () const override
bool hasMagneticField () const override
bool hasMetallicity () const override
bool hasParameters () const override
bool hasTemperature () const override
bool hasVariableMix () const override
bool hasVelocity () const override
bool importMagneticField () const
bool importMetallicity () const
bool importTemperature () const
bool importVariableMixParams () const
bool importVelocity () const
Vec magneticField (Position bfr) const override
double mass () const override
double massDensity (Position bfr) const override
double massFraction () const
MaterialMixmaterialMix () const
MaterialMixFamilymaterialMixFamily () const
double maxTemperature () const
double metallicity (Position bfr) const override
const MaterialMixmix () const override
const MaterialMixmix (Position bfr) const override
double number () const override
double numberDensity (Position bfr) const override
int numSites () const override
double opticalDepthX (double lambda) const override
double opticalDepthY (double lambda) const override
double opticalDepthZ (double lambda) const override
void parameters (Position bfr, Array &params) const override
Position sitePosition (int index) const override
const Snapshotsnapshot () const
double temperature (Position bfr) const override
string useColumns () const
Public Member Functions inherited from SimulationItem
template<class T>
T * find (bool setup=true) const
template<class T>
T * interface (int levels=-999999, bool setup=true) const
virtual string itemName () const
void setup ()
string typeAndName () const
Public Member Functions inherited from Item
 Item (const Item &)=delete
virtual ~Item ()
void addChild (Item *child)
const vector< Item * > & children () const
virtual void clearItemListProperty (const PropertyDef *property)
void destroyChild (Item *child)
virtual bool getBoolProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual vector< double > getDoubleListProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual double getDoubleProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual string getEnumProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual int getIntProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual vector< Item * > getItemListProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual ItemgetItemProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
virtual string getStringProperty (const PropertyDef *property) const
int getUtilityProperty (string name) const
virtual void insertIntoItemListProperty (const PropertyDef *property, int index, Item *item)
Itemoperator= (const Item &)=delete
Itemparent () const
virtual void removeFromItemListProperty (const PropertyDef *property, int index)
virtual void setBoolProperty (const PropertyDef *property, bool value)
virtual void setDoubleListProperty (const PropertyDef *property, vector< double > value)
virtual void setDoubleProperty (const PropertyDef *property, double value)
virtual void setEnumProperty (const PropertyDef *property, string value)
virtual void setIntProperty (const PropertyDef *property, int value)
virtual void setItemProperty (const PropertyDef *property, Item *item)
virtual void setStringProperty (const PropertyDef *property, string value)
void setUtilityProperty (string name, int value)
virtual string type () const
Public Member Functions inherited from SiteListInterface
virtual ~SiteListInterface ()
Public Member Functions inherited from VoronoiMeshInterface
virtual ~VoronoiMeshInterface ()

Detailed Description

A VoronoiMeshMedium instance represents a transfer medium with a spatial density distribution described by a list of sites generating a Voronoi tesselation of a cubodail domain. The data is usually extracted from a cosmological simulation snapshot, and it must be provided in a column text file formatted as described below.

Refer to the description of the TextInFile class for information on overall formatting and on how to include header lines specifying the units for each column in the input file. In case the input file has no unit specifications, the default units mentioned below are used instead. The number of columns expected in the input file depends on the options configured by the user for this VoronoiMeshMedium instance:

\[ x\,(\mathrm{pc}) \quad y\,(\mathrm{pc}) \quad z\,(\mathrm{pc}) \quad \{\, \rho\,(\text{M}_\odot\,\text{pc}^{-3}) \;\;|\;\; M\,(\text{M}_\odot) \;\;|\;\; n\,(\text{cm}^{-3}) \;\;|\;\; N\,(1) \,\} \quad [Z\,(1)] \quad [T\,(\mathrm{K})] \quad [ v_x\,(\mathrm{km/s}) \quad v_y\,(\mathrm{km/s}) \quad v_z\,(\mathrm{km/s}) ] \quad [ B_x\,(\mu\mathrm{G}) \quad B_y\,(\mu\mathrm{G}) \quad B_z\,(\mu\mathrm{G}) ] \quad [ \dots\text{mix family params}\dots ] \]

The first three columns are the \(x\), \(y\) and \(z\) coordinates of the Voronoi site (i.e. the location defining a particular Voronoi cell).

Depending on the value of the massType option, the fourth column lists the average mass density \(\rho\), the integrated mass \(M\), the average number density \(n\), or the integrated number density \(N\) for the cell corresponding to the site. This quantity is multiplied by the value of the massFraction option.

If the importMetallicity option is enabled, the next column specifies a "metallicity" fraction, which is multiplied with the mass/density column to obtain the actual mass/density of the cell corresponding to the site. If the importTemperature option is enabled, the next column specifies a temperature. If this temperature is higher than the value of the maxTemperature option, the mass and density for the site are set to zero, regardless of the mass or density specified in the fourth column. If the importTemperature option is disabled, or the maximum temperature value is set to zero, such a cutoff is not applied.

If both the importMetallicity and importTemperature options are enabled, this leads to the following expression for the density of an imported site (or a simular formula for the other mass quantity types):

\[ \rho_\mathrm{imported} = \begin{cases} f_\mathrm{mass}\,Z\,\rho & \mathrm{if}\; T<T_\mathrm{max} \;\mathrm{or}\; T_\mathrm{max}=0 \\ 0 & \mathrm{otherwise} \end{cases} \]

If the importVelocity option is enabled, the subsequent three columns specify the \(v_x\), \(v_y\), \(v_z\) velocity components of the site (considered as the bulk velocity for the mass represented by the site).

If the importMagneticField option is enabled, the subsequent three columns specify the \(B_x\), \(B_y\), \(B_z\) magnetic field vector components for the cell.

Finally, if the importVariableMixParams option is enabled, the remaining columns specify the parameters used by the configured material mix family to select a particular material mix for the cell.

Avoiding construction of the Voronoi tessellation

The algorithm used by the VoronoiMeshSnapshot class for constructing Voronoi tessellations sometimes fails (for example, when generating sites are too close to each other). In those cases, it can be desirable to forego the construction of the Voronoi tessellation and instead use a nearest neighbor search for sampling the density distribution. This is possible as long as the full tessellation is not needed for other purposes, such as to perform radiative transfer or to generate random positions drawn from the density distribution. An important use case is when the medium density distribution defined on the Voronoi grid is resampled to an octree grid to perform radiative transfer. However, the octree subdivision algorithm requires the total mass of the medium in addition to the density samples. Without the full Voronoi tessellation, it is impossible to calculate the cell volume that would allow conversion between cell density and mass.

To enable this use case, the massType option can be set to include both mass density and volume-integrated mass (or both number density and volume-integrated number) in the imported data file. Thus, if the massType option is set to one of these choices, the import file must include two columns (mass density \(\rho\) plus integrated mass \(M\), or number density \(n\) plus integrated number density \(N\) ). Furthermore, if the simulation configuration allows it (i.e. the full Voronoi tessellation is not needed for other purposes), the VoronoiMeshSnapshot class will use the information in these two columns to calculate the cell volumes and the total medium mass, and it will forego construction of the Voronoi tessellation.

When an item of this type is used, the names provided by the conditional value expression "VoronoiMeshInterface" are inserted into the name sets used for evaluating Boolean expressions.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ VoronoiMeshMedium()

VoronoiMeshMedium::VoronoiMeshMedium ( )
inlineprotected

Default constructor for concrete Item subclass VoronoiMeshMedium: "a transfer medium imported from data represented on a Voronoi mesh".

Member Function Documentation

◆ createAndOpenSnapshot()

Snapshot * VoronoiMeshMedium::createAndOpenSnapshot ( )
overrideprotectedvirtual

This function constructs a new VoronoiMeshSnapshot object, calls its open() function, passes it the domain extent configured by the user, configures it to import a mass or a density column, and finally returns a pointer to the object. Ownership of the Snapshot object is transferred to the caller.

Implements ImportedMedium.

◆ voronoiMesh()

VoronoiMeshSnapshot * VoronoiMeshMedium::voronoiMesh ( ) const
overrideprotectedvirtual

This function implements the VoronoiMeshInterface interface. It returns a pointer to the Voronoi mesh snapshot maintained by this geometry.

Implements VoronoiMeshInterface.


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