- the new parameter toplev stores the level of refinement larger or
equal to maxlev; this level cannot be set in the config.in, but is
determined during the initiation or restarting the job;
- several subroutines have been updated to use toplev instead of
maxlev;
- a new module COORDS handles the mesh variables which needed to be
separated from the MESH module since they are used in PROBLEM module,
which is required by MESH module; this created a circular dependency;
by introducing a new COORDS module we removed that problem;
- the new subroutine redistribute_blocks() calculates the new
distribution of blocks among all processors and move data blocks
which need to be moved to another processor;
- replace autobalancing in update_mesh() using the new subroutine
redistribute_blocks();
- subroutine update_maximum_speed() has been replaced with
find_new_timestep(), which first finds the minimum spacial step
dxmin, then finds the maximum speed in the domain, and finally
estimates new time step;
- dx_min has been removed from MESH module, since it is not required
anymore;
- reorganize order of subroutines and separate them between groups for
meta and data blocks, refinement, and private functions and
subroutines;
- change the copyright header; update to new email address;
- make all module pointers, variables, and subroutines private and
allow only for subset of them to be public;
- improve the description of block structures;
- add several functions to return module variables such as the number
of meta and data blocks, the number of leafs, the last id, etc.;
- update several subroutines from other modules which required some of
the BLOCK module variables;
- the level resolution array 'res' has been moved to mesh module, where
it should belong; due to this it needs to be provided as an argument
to subroutines in BLOCK and PROBLEM modules which use it;
- the level resolution array stores block resolutions in each
directions, so it is now a two dimensional array, with the dimensions
corresponding to the number of levels and number of dimensions;
- update subroutine write_coordinates_h5() to store the level
resolution array properly;
- add a new subroutine set_datablock_dims() to set dimensions of the
allocatable arrays in data blocks; this subroutine is called from
init_mesh(), which is the right place to initiate BLOCK module;
- remove dependency of blocks.o on variables.o;
- boundaries.o depends on timers.o;
- a new file 'mesh.log' is created with the following colums: step,
time, the number of leafs, the number of meta blocks, the coverage
efficiency, which is the number of leafs divided by the number of top
level blocks covering the whole domain, the AMR efficiency which
shows the advantage of using adaptive mesh (with boundaries taken
into account), block distribution over levels and processors;
- the AMR efficiency is the number of leafs multiplied by the number of
cells in one block (with boundaries included) and divided by the
effective resolution with boundaries included; if this parameter is
smaller than 1.0 we should expect faster calculations due to the
adaptive mesh, if the parameter is larger than 1.0, we only slow down
the calculations by using the adaptive mesh;
