Gear star formation split
Here is my implementation of partial star formation. In GEAR, we wish to have a high resolution for the stars, therefore during the star formation, we transform a small part of a gas particle into a star particle.
Here are the key points for the merge request:
- at the beginning of the simulation, I am computing the average mass of the gas particles and use it as the mass of my future particles.
- We use two different functions for the star formation. Either we create a new spart or if the gas particle does not have enough mass we convert it to a spart.
- For creating a new spart, we need a new gpart (A simple copy / paste of the spart functions is enough).
- The code was crashing due to a small mistake in
space.c
. The functionspace_allocate_extra
was using the wrong number ofgparts
. - The same function was not updating the
gpart
pointers in the black holes when a new gpart is created.
I have been able to do the IsolatedGalaxy and SmallCosmologicalVolume simulations until the end with the new way of SF and will test it more later with my comparison between SWIFT and GEAR.