/vhlle

vHLLE : a 3D viscous hydrodynamic code for heavy ion collision modeling

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*            vHLLE : a 3D viscous hydrodynamic code                           *
*            by Iurii Karpenko                                                *
*  For the detailed description please refer to:                              *
*  Comput. Phys. Commun. 185 (2014), 3016    [arXiv:1312.4160]                *
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*  This code can be freely used and redistributed, provided that this         *
*  copyright appear in all the copies. If you decide to make modifications    *
*  to the code, please contact the authors, especially if you plan to publish *
*  the results obtained with such modified code. Any publication of results   *
*  obtained using this code must include the reference to:                    *
*  Comput. Phys. Commun. 185 (2014), 3016    [arXiv:1312.4160]                *
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 This repository contains source code of vHLLE.
 
The following branches may be particularly useful:
+ cpc_final branch corresponds to the code published in Comput. Phys. Commun.
  This branch is more useful to get familiarized with the structure of the code
  and reproduce the published test results.
+ stable_ebe branch contains the most recent, feature-rich code used for actual
  event-by-event simulations:
  - different initial state modules (classes)
  - Cornelius module to reconstruct the elements of particlization hypersurface
    (please cite P. Huovinen, H. Petersen, Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 171,
     https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12171-9  when using this branch)
  - improved scheme for ideal-viscous splitting
  - cross terms for shear/bulk viscosity according to
    J. Bernhard et al, Phys.Rev. C 94, 024907, G.S. Denicol et al, Phys.Rev. C 90, 024912
    See cross_terms branch for more details
  - dynamic grid resize for CPU time-saving simulation
  - and many more improvements.

 0. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PACKAGE
 
 The package contains the following files:
 Makefile
 src/      : source subdirectory
  |- inc.h : predefined constants
  |- rmn.h, rmn.cpp : transformation procedures from conserved variables to
  |                   primitive variables and back
  |- cll.h, cll.cpp : Cell class which stores and manipulates the properties of
  |                   the individual hydro cell
  |- eos.h, eos.cpp : EoS class, equation of state information
  |- fld.h, fld.cpp : Fluid class, which contains fluid (3D array of fluid cells)
  |                   as a whole and performs auxiliary actions on a fluid
  |- ic.h, ic.cpp : initial conditions for fluid-dynamical evolution from
  |                 optical Glauber or Guber flow
  |- s95p.h, s95p.cpp: manages tabular initial conditions and EoS 's95' (for optional use)
  |- trancoeff.h, trancoeff.cpp : Trancoeff class containing transport
  |                               coefficients: (T-dependent) shear, bulk
  |                               viscosites and corresponding relaxation times
  |- hdo.h, hdo.cpp : Hydro class, which contains the algorithms of hydrodynamic solution
  \- main.cpp : main() function, initializes all the objects and calls ecolution
                loop, also takes care of reading the parameters of the
                simulation from parameter file
 params/  : subdirectory with parameter files, see their description below
 eos/Laine_nf3.dat : equation of state, latticeQCD inspired results
                     from M. Laine and Y. Schroder, PRD 73, 085009
 ic/      : sample tabulated initial conditions, used for 3D run
 hydro_output/  : subdirectory containing hydrodynamic optput (generated by the
                  code) and Gnuplot scripts to make some of the plots presented
                  in the paper. See the description in Sect. II below.
 doc/     : Latex drafts documenting some of the improvements from the version
            published in Comput.Phys.Commun.


 I. BUILDING vHLLE on Linux

 1) The following software must be installed in order to compile the code:
 make, g++, binutils, ROOT
 
 To install those packages,
 -> on Ubuntu 11.x - 16.x run:
 sudo apt-get install make g++ binutils root-system
 -> on Fedora 18 and above run: 
 sudo yum install make gcc binutils root
 
 The latest version of the ROOT package is also available at http://root.cern.ch/
 From commit f1dbe5a onwards, ROOT6 is required to compile the code.
 
 Optionally, to run Gluplot scripts provided in the program package one has to
 install Gnuplot and awk (gawk).
  
 2) Unpack the code: 
 mkdir vHLLE
 tar xzf vHLLE.tar.gz -C vHLLE
 cd vHLLE

 3) make the code:
 make
 
 
 II. RUNNING vHLLE
 
 1. to run the code, type
 ./hlle_visc <parameter-file>
 
Sample parameter files can be found in a code package linked to the reference
publication [Comput. Phys. Commun. 185 (2014), 3016]. The parameter files are located
in params/ subdirectory and cover several of the results published in the ref. publication:

 1) comparison to VISH2+1 code in Section 4.3 ("Matter expansion in heavy ion
  collisions"). The corresponding parameter files are:
params/song2DCPC.*
The filename suffixes correspond to:
 b0 = impact parameter 0 fm
 b7 = impact parameter 7 fm
 etas008 = viscous hydro simulation with eta/s=0.08
 ideal = ideal hydro simulation
 
 In order to reproduce the comparison plots (Figures 9, 10) one should run the
 code with all 4 input files. This will create subdirectories "song2D.*" with 
 hydrodynamic output for each parameter set. Then Gunplot scripts hydro_output/*.plot 
 will read and parse the hydrodynamic output and draw the corresponding plots.  
 Then run Gnuplot with "hydro_output" as working directory, and load one of the 
 scripts in Gnuplot prompt:

 cd hydro_output
 gnuplot
 gnuplot> load 'radFlow.plot'  # which creates "vradSong.eps" postscript containing Figure 9,
 gnuplot> load 'epsilonp.plot'  # which creates "epsilonpSong.eps" postscript containing Figure 10
 
 2)numerical solution for ideal Gubser flow (end of Section 4.1).
  The corresponding parameter file is:
params/gubserCPC

 To produce the plots run Gnuplot with "hydro_output" as working directory. In Gnuplot prompt, type:
 gnuplot> load 'gubser.plot'
 which creates "gubserEps.eps" and "gubserVx.eps", which are Figures 5 and 6,
 respectively.

 3)3D hydro simulation described in Section 4.4 ("Energy conservation").
  The corresponding parameter file is:
params/3DCPC

 Note that this simulation uses full 3D grid. With the parameters provided, the 
 program consumes about 1900 Mbytes of RAM. Therefore please make sure that the 
 host machine has enough RAM to run this simulation.

 The purpose of this simulation is to check the energy/entropy conservation 
 during 3D hydrodynamic expansion of a closed system. The corresponding results 
 are presented in Table 1 of the paper. To reproduce the results, please watch 
 the console output of the program, which contains total energy and total entropy 
 after each timestep.
 Note that by default the code uses the equation of state 'p=epsilon/3'. 
 To reproduce the numbers in the middle column of the Table 1 corresponding to 
 'Laine' EoS, please recompile the code with  'EXTRA_FLAGS   = -D TABLE' in Makefile.
 The typical console output of the program is the following:
 
-----
.....
step= 0  dtau= 0.05

calcTotals: E =        1402.31  Efull =        1402.33
           Px =              0      S =        6869.23
.....
------
where
      E : total energy of the system [GeV], computed from ideal part of the
          energy-momentum system only,
  Efull : total energy of system including viscous terms in energy-momentum tensor,
     Px : x-component of the total momentum
      S : total enrgopy including viscous terms


 III. STRUCTURE OF THE OUTPUT FILES
 
 Each hydrodynamic simulation records its results in a separate directory, which 
 is specified by the value of 'outputDir' parameter in the corresponding parameter 
 file. Below we denote the cells used for the output as  cell(ix,iy,iz), where
 ix=[0...nx-1]  is x-coordinate of cell on 3D grid
 iy=[0...ny-1]  is y-coordinate of cell on 3D grid
 iz=[0...nz-1]  is z-coordinate of cell on 3D grid

 As a result of the simulation the output directory contains the following files:
 outx.dat    :   distributions in cells along X direction at every timestep.
                 The cells used are cell(ix,ny/2,nz/2),  ix=0...nx-1
 outy.dat    :   distributions in cells along Y direction at every timestep.
                 The cells used are cell(nx/2,iy,nz/2),  iy=0...ny-1
 outz.dat    :   distributions in cells along Z direction at every timestep.
                 The cells used are cell(nx/2,ny/2,iz),  iz=0...nz-1
 outdiag.dat :   distributions in cells along diagonal direction in XY plane
                 at every timestep. The cells used are cell(ix,ix,iz), ix=0...nx-1
                 Works reliabaly if nx=ny
 out.aniz.dat:   grid-integrated quantities $\epsilon_p$, $\epsilon_p'$ 
                 (see Subsection 4.3 "Matter expansion in ...")
 
 The format of the columns in the output files is:
 
 outx.dat:
 t  x  vx  vy  eps  nb  T  mub  [pi*10]  Pi  cut_flag
 
 outy.dat:
 t  y  vy  vx  eps  nb  T  mub  [pi*10]  Pi  cut_flag

 outz.dat:
 t  z  vz  vx  eps  nb  T  mub  [pi*10]  Pi  cut_flag

 outdiag.dat:
 t  sqrt(x*x+y*y)  vx  vy  eps  nb  T  mub  [pi*10]  Pi  cut_flag
 
 out.aniz.dat:
 t  <vt>  <epsilon_p>  <epsilon_p'>
 
 where
 t : proper time [fm/c]
 x : x coordinate [fm]
 y : y coordinate [fm]
 z : rapidity
 vx : x-component of 3-velocity
 vy : x-component of 3-velocity
 vz : longitudinal flow rapifity
 eps : energy density in fluid rest frame [GeV/fm^3]
 nb : baryon density in fluid rest frame [1/fm^3]
 T  : temperature [GeV]
 mub : baryon chemical potential [GeV]
 [pi*10] : $\pi^{mu\nu}$ components: $\pi^{\tau\tau}$, $\pi^{\tau x}$, 
           $\pi^{\tau y}$, $\pi^{\tau\eta}$, $\pi^{xx}$, $\pi^{xy}$, $\pi^{x\eta}$, 
           $\pi^{yy}$, $\pi^{y\eta}$, $\pi^{\eta\eta}$. All the components 
           correspond to $\tilde{\pi^{\mu\nu}}$, see Section 2. Unirs are [GeV/fm^3]
 Pi : bulk pressure [GeV/fm^3]
 cut_flag : viscous corrections are cut by cut_flag factor in the cell 
            (not cut if cut_flag = 1.0)