AMReX-Astro / AMReX-Astro/Castro

make advection memory (largely) independent of number of species

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GPU hydro performance
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Description

We should be able to reformulate the CTU method to do the species updates "on demand" by upwinding based on the contact speed (for non-HLL solvers), and therefore not need to store the fluxes of the species. We'll use this issue to explore this idea.

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the CTU advection implementation, species updates, and species-flux storage, then compare the non-HLL solver paths and contact-speed upwinding. Done should establish whether the reformulation avoids storing species fluxes while preserving the updates, with validation defined for the affected methods.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
hpc
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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