Periodic gravity calculation
This is a large re-write of the periodic gravity calculation in the light of the inaccuracies spotted in high-redshift test cases.
The main changes are:
- Decouple the mesh on which the gravity forces are computed from the top-level grid.
- Interpolate the mesh forces directly to the particles rather than to the multipoles.
- Correct the long-range M2L kernel in the case of periodic BCs.
- Correct the way we compute the exact solution with periodic BCs.
- Add a cosmological term to the potential to reflect the normalisation at infinity.
- Only create pair tasks and recurse in them only if the distance between them is above the scale where forces are 0.
- Help the compiler vectorize more of the gravity code by flagging so-called
const
functions as such. - Updates to the theory documents.
- Ignore the co-moving softening when not running with cosmology (implements #439 (closed)).
- Add an option to undo the 1/sqrt(a) factor in the velocities of Gadget ICs (implements #438 (closed)).
- Adds a cosmology test case with a correct parameter file (fixes #429 (closed)).
One important thing is that I have disabled the use of MPI for periodic gravity for now. I still need to work on this aspect but I'd like the rest to be tested first and secured in the master branch.
Edited by Matthieu Schaller