https://github.com/bendudson/hypnotoad

Tokamak mesh generator in IDL
https://github.com/bendudson/hypnotoad

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Tokamak mesh generator in IDL

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bendudson/hypnotoad
• Owner: bendudson
• License: lgpl-3.0
• Created: 2010-11-10T16:16:53.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-06-27T10:06:29.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-04T12:07:36.723Z (about 1 year ago)
• Homepage: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~bd512/codes.shtml
• Size: 953 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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README

          
                      Hypnotoad 

                      =========

A field-aligned structured mesh generator for tokamaks.

Takes a G-EQDSK format input file (from e.g EFIT), and produces

a mesh which can be used for simulation codes

To run the code, go into IDL

IDL> hypnotoad

See the manual in doc/ for instructions

License

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Copyright 2010 B.D.Dudson (University of York)

Hypnotoad is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

Hypnotoad is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License

along with Hypnotoad.  If not, see .

A copy of the LGPL license is in COPYING.LESSER. Since this is based

on (and refers to) the GPL, this is included in COPYING.

Features

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Processing consists of the following steps

 o Reading equilibria (read_neqdsk.pro)

 o Analysing to find x-points and o-points (analyse_equil.pro)

 o Creating a mesh (create_grid.pro)

 o Processing the mesh to produce output for BOUT++ (process_grid.pro)

Each of these files contains comments describing what their inputs

and outputs are.

All of these steps can be done automatically in a script (see test.pro)

except for process_grid.pro currently. This is because often meshes

from EFIT need to be adjusted first before they can be used, so processing

currently needs some user interaction.

For processing step: Answer "No" to all questions if in doubt.

The hypnotoad GUI provides an interface, but doesn't do any processing

so it's not needed. This is so everything can be automated if needed.

The main feature is that the mesh generation tries to be very forgiving.

If it comes across a problem in the settings, it will try to find better

settings and retry. After a number of retries it will eventually give up.

Limitations

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o Currently only outputs for BOUT++, although adapting to other formats

  should be possible. See the output of create_mesh.pro and see what

  process_grid does with it

o The mesh is currently only orthogonal. This means that it can't properly

  conform to boundaries e.g. target plates. This is more difficult to

  change, but is planned