Ranges, Ghost Cells and Fields
One very useful feature of Schnek is the ability to define rectangular domains and ghost cells on numerical grids. Ghost cells are grid cells that lie outside of the inner simulation domain of a simulation process. They can serve two different purposes. On the outer edge of the simulation domain they are needed in order to enforce boundary conditions. At the edges between the simulation domain of two processes they represent values that are being calculated on the neighbouring process.
The Field class in Schnek is a Grid with additional information attached to it. It handles ghost cells, and it is aware of the physical dimensions that the grid represents in the real world. Utility methods allow the mapping of grid indices to real world coordinates and back, while allowing for grid staggering.
This section covers the following topics.