Generating initial conditions

pNbody provides a lots of different way to generatin initial conditions, ready to be run with evolution codes.

The generation of initial conditions is devided into two parts. First, the generation of a mass profile by distributing particles in space. Secondly, the determination of the velocities for each of these particles.

• Generating mass profiles
  • Examples:
  • Generic spherical distributions:
  • Generic cubic distributions:
  • Spherical distribution with variable resolution:
• Generating velocities
  • Spherical coordinate
  • Example : Set a Plummer sphere to the jeans equilibrium
  • Cylindrical coordinate
  • Example : Set an exponnential disk to the jeans equilibrium
• Generating initial conditions from a distribution function
  • Scripts