Programmer Guide

Documentation/Programmer Guide

This guide is intended as a very basic introduction to the data structures and organization of Athena; it will be useful to any user interested in modifying or extending the code. The User Guide should be consulted for directions on how to install, configure, compile, and run Athena.

• The Computational Grid
  • Mesh
  • Domains
  • Grids
  • Centering of Variables
• Data Structures
  • Conserved and Primitive Variables
  • Grid
  • Domain
  • Mesh
  • Output
• Memory Allocation and Management
• Problem Generators and Parsing Input
• Code Structure
• Code Style