Commit 262732d3 authored by Ann Almgren's avatar Ann Almgren
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Adding more detail about defaults and usage

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@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ Currently, the criterion for setting "steady_state" to true is if "dt" is undefi
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+------------+
|                       | Description                                                           |   Type      | Default    |
+=======================+=======================================================================+=============+============+
| steady_state_tol      | Tolerance for checking if we have reached steady state                |   Real      | 1.e-5      |
| steady_state          | Are we running a steady-state calculation?                            |   Int       | 0          |
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+------------+
| steady_state_tol      | Tolerance for checking if we have reached steady state                |   Real      | None       |
|                       |                                                                       |             |            |
|                       | (Must be set if steady_state_tol = 1)                                 |             |            |
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+------------+
| steady_state_max_iter | Maximum number of allowed iterations to converge to steady state      |   Int       | 100000000  |
+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+------------+
@@ -50,8 +54,15 @@ There are several ways that the inputs are used to determine what time step
is used in the evolution of the fluid-particle system in MFiX-Exa.   

1) In a pure particle case, the "mfix.fixed_dt", if specified, is only used to determine the frequency
of outputs, it has no effect on the dt used in the particle evaluation.  [WHAT HAPPENS IF FIXED_DT 
NOT SPECIFIED?]
of outputs, it has no effect on the dt used in the particle evaluation. If you do not specify a positive
value of "mfix.fixed_dt" then the code will abort.

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::

    amrex::Abort::0::If running particle-only must specify fixed_dt in the inputs file !!!


That is determined by the following calculation: