Model inputs/parameters

There are 4 types of model inputs:

1. Material parameters that are constant (water density, ice latent heat, ...)
2. Material parameters that vary in space (ice viscosity, damage, ...)
3. Other model parameters that are constant (convergence criterion, maximum number of iteration, ...)
4. Other model inputs that vary in space (ice thickness, surface elevation,...)

There are 3 placeholders in ISSM:

• element->inputs for everything that varies in space (2 and 4).
• Matpar for material constants (1).
• femmodel->parameters for solution constants (3).

Numbering

Vertices, Elements and Nodes have different numberings:

• Id: random but unique across all partitions.
• SId: serial Id. Starts at 0 and increases by one, this numbering is independent of the mesh partitioning (hence "serial") and is the same as if there was only one cpu.
• PId: parallel Id. Starts at 0 and increases by one but is such that we count the entities on the first partition first, then the second etc so that nodes that have a high Pid belong to a partition that has a high number. This is useful for parallel vector and matrices where we want each partition to insert values in its own memory slot.
• LId: local Id. Starts at 0 for each partition, increases by 1, but is local to the partition. Each partition has a vertex of Lid 0, and its maximum Lid is the number of vertices in the partition -1.

Solutions and Analyses

• An analysis is the resolution of one PDE
• A solution might consist of the solution of one analysis or several analyses. For example in a TransientSolution, we solve Stressbalanceanalysis, MasstransportAnalysis, ThermalAnalysis,...

Each analysis has one unique file in src/c/analyses and they all derive from the class Analysis with a list of functions they have to have (CreateKMatrix, NumberofDofs,...). Each solution has one core in src/c/cores