Ascent

Ascent has been integrated into MFIX-Exa for in situ visualization. MFIX-Exa must be built with Ascent support to use this feature.

The following inputs must be preceded by the prefix mfix and control frequency of the Ascent pipeline.

	Description	Type	Default
ascent_int	Frequency of ascent pipeline; if -1 then ascent will not be called.	Int	-1
ascent_per_approx	Time period of the ascent pipeline (approximate); if -1 then ascent will not be called.	Real	-1

The following input must be preceded by the prefix ascent, and specifies the Ascent actions for fluid and/or particles. The frequency which these are called is controlled by ascent_int or ascent_per_approx, see above. Note that if an Ascent pipeline is being included in a GPU build/run, then you must enable managed memory,i.e., set amrex.the_arena_is_managed = true.

	Description	Type	Default
actions	yaml file of the ascent actions (ex. ascent_actions.yaml). If no file name is provided, then calls to Ascent are skipped.	String