BOUNDARY_METHOD

Definition

Method to treat radial boundary conditions.

Choices

• BOUNDARY_METHOD=1: Periodic (flux-tube).
• BOUNDARY_METHOD=2: Nonperiodic (global).

Comments

• This effectively switches between periodic radial boundary conditions (a flux-tube simulation) and nonperiodic ones (a global simulation).
• Setting BOUNDARY_METHOD=1 forces FLAT_PROFILE_FLAG=1.
• This can be used with RADIAL_PROFILE_METHOD=3.
• There are a variety of other parameters which control boundary conditions in the nonperiodic case, such as EXPLICIT_DAMP and EXPLICIT_DAMP_GRID.

Internal name

boundary_method

Default

1