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Radiating Blast: M1 RK1 and FLD backward Euler

Saved-state movies

Movies use stored numerical states, held without solution interpolation.

M1 reference: no supplied analytic or digitized numerical profile. Ensman (1994), Figures 17–22, provide published numerical comparisons. Their curves are not embedded, and the original shell/deposition differs from this filled-core Cartesian adaptation. The Sedov–Taylor solution is not an analytic solution of this radiating setup.

FLD reference: no supplied independent reference profile. Moving gas and radiation evolve together with mixed-frame FLD. The published benchmark curves are not embedded; comparisons with M1 measure closure and discretization differences, not exact-solution error.

M1 and FLD solve different transport closures. Both updates are first order in time. A small model discrepancy does not establish accuracy against an exact solution. M1 evolves radiation flux; FLD reconstructs diagnostic flux from its energy gradient. Flux differences are not errors in a shared radiation-momentum conservation law. FLD uses physical light speed on the CPU. Moving cases include gas transport and radiation force/work; their derived lab-frame flux includes radiation enthalpy advection.

Level 2

M1 RK1 ran on one QueenBee node, qbd172, job 1102388. Its executable, source, libraries, configuration, and imported outputs are bound to the verified completion receipt.

M1 RK1: complete results, parameters and reference discussion

FLD backward Euler ran on one QueenBee node, qbd119, job 1102412. Its executable, source, libraries, configuration, and imported outputs are bound to the verified completion receipt.

FLD backward Euler: complete results, parameters and reference discussion

matched. No other refinement level or physical time is substituted for a missing partner.

Level 2 model profiles and separately applicable references

Matched profile coordinates and values (CSV)

FLD minus M1: model discrepancy on the saved slice

FieldUnitsL₁L₂L∞
Gas densityg/cm^39.494609e-096.543726e-087.983492e-07
Gas velocity xcm/s1.172252e+081.505673e+083.549592e+08
Gas velocity ycm/s1.172252e+081.505673e+083.549592e+08
Gas velocity zcm/s2.600610e+063.078557e+068.489967e+06
Gas temperatureK8.950277e+041.227330e+053.309870e+05
Radiation temperatureK8.949811e+041.227312e+053.309870e+05
Radiation energy densityerg/cm^32.864039e+076.942008e+073.641361e+08
Radiation flux xerg/(cm^2 s)1.576863e+153.190488e+151.366548e+16
Radiation flux yerg/(cm^2 s)1.576863e+153.190488e+151.366548e+16
Radiation flux zerg/(cm^2 s)2.850546e+147.211638e+144.320533e+15

M1 RK1: model-specific reference diagnostics

Numerical-only output: no applicable embedded reference curve or analytic error norm.

Source slice CSV · Run metadata

FLD backward Euler: model-specific reference diagnostics

Numerical-only output: no applicable embedded reference curve or analytic error norm.

Source slice CSV · Run metadata

Total gas and radiation momentum

Momentum components, magnitude, and available boundary balances

Model discrepancy and input hashes (JSON)

Level 3

M1 RK1: pending.

FLD backward Euler: pending.

Model discrepancy and input hashes (JSON)

Level 4

M1 RK1: pending.

FLD backward Euler: pending.

Model discrepancy and input hashes (JSON)

How these comparisons are measured

All field values retain their saved units. Central profiles share x coordinates and the positive row adjacent to y = z = 0. Adaptive leaf-cell averages are prolonged as constants onto the finest common Cartesian x-y partition, without extrapolation or time interpolation. Different leaf sizes may average different z extents adjacent to the plane. These are saved finite-volume slices.

Slice L₁ is mean absolute discrepancy, L₂ is root-mean-square discrepancy, and L∞ is maximum absolute discrepancy, with area weighting. These are two-dimensional diagnostics; separately labeled solver reference norms cover the full volume. Each model is measured against its own saved reference. A diffusion-limit error includes departures of the nonlinear closure from that limit.