example_config.yml

time_integration:
  dt_min: 1e-11         # The minimal possible timestep allowed. Will panic if a particle requests a smaller timestep
  dt_max: 0.05          # The maximal possible timestep.
  t_end: 0.2            # The end time of the simulation
  cfl_criterion: 0.3    # The CFL criterion for determining the particles' timesteps
  sync_timesteps: false # Whether to always update all particles, or use individual timesteps

snapshots:
  dt_snap: 0.02         # The time between snapshot dumps (hdf5 format)
  prefix: sodshock_2D   # The prefix of the snapshot names
  save_faces: false     # Whether to store the Voronoi faces in the snapshots

engine:
  dt_status: 1e-3           # How often the status line is printed
  particle_motion: steer    # Particle motion: fixed for Eulerian mode, fluid for full lagrangian mode, steer or steer_pakmor for a lagrangian mode with steering to improve the geometry of the cells 
  runner: OptimalOrder      # The runner used for performing a timestep (determines the order of operations in the timestep). Options are: [OptimalOrder, Default, TwoGradient, Pakmor, PakmorExtrapolate, VolumeBackExtrapolate, DefaultHalfDrift, OptimalOrderHalfDrift, MeshlessGradientHalfDrift, TwoVolumeHalfDrift, FluxExtrapolateHalfDrift]
  
gravity:
  kind: none                    # The type of gravitational potential: none, external or self-gravity
  softening_length: 0.001       # The gravitational softening length to use for the particles (for self-gravity, or keplerian disc)
  potential:                    # Extra properties of the potential (when an external potential is chosen)
    kind: constant              # The type of external potential: constant or keplerian_disc
    acceleration: [0., -1., 0.] # The (constant) gravitational acceleration

hydrodynamics:
  gamma: 1.66666667               # The polytropic index of the gas
  equation_of_state: Ideal        # The type of equation of state: Ideal or Isothermal 
  isothermal_internal_energy: 1.  # The internal energy of the isothermal gas.

riemann_solver: 
  kind: AIRS    # The type of Riemann solver to use for the simulation. Options are: [Exact, HLLC, TSRS, TRRS, AIRS, PVRS]
  threshold: 2. # The threshold of the AIRS

space:
  boundary: reflective    # The type of boundary conditions for simulations: periodic, reflective, vacuum or open
  max_top_level_cells: 8  # The number of cells in 1 spatial dimension. Neighbour search for particles is only performed by searching in the cell containing a particle and its neighbours

initial_conditions:
  kind: file              # The type of initial conditions, load from file or config or use a preset: file, config, sodshock, noh, toro, constant, vacuum-expansion or square-advection
  filename: ICs/sodshock_2D.hdf5  # The filename to load the ICs from (hdf5 format)
  periodic: false         # Whether the ICs are meant to run with periodic boundary conditions (only used when loading from config or preset).
  dimensionality: 2       # The dimensionality of the simulation (only used when loading from config or preset).
  box_size: [4., 1., 1.]  # The box-size of the simulation (only used when loading from config or preset).
  num_part: 4096          # The number of particles to generate (only used when loading from config or preset).
  perturbations: 0.01     # The scale of the perturbations to the particle positions (when generating from a preset).