clawpack/geoclaw — pull request #67 by rjleveque (2014-02-25 04:48:44+00:00)
Title: New dtopo

Major changes to the way dtopo (moving topography) files are handled.

- Should work much better than original code for certain problems with moving topography, captures motion better and ends up with proper topo at end.
- Final topo is represented on newly introduced topo arrays that have the same resolution as the dtopo file they are generated from, rather than interpolating back to topo grids.
- Multiple dtopo files are now properly handled.
- Introduced setrun parameter rundata.dtopo_data.dt_max_dtopo for the maximum dt to allow during time
topo is moving.
- Now allows more than 4 nested topo grids, with code refactored and made recursive.
- Fixed setaux to extrapolate topo to ghost cells rather than evaluating topo grids, which might not extend beyond physical domain.
- Now stops with error message if topo grids don't cover physical domain.

This has been fairly extensively tested and seems to be working.