commit 6971bb392f01ed75e35f4a4e0ce70e0298c0e813
parent 484ad0894489549f10f8e5dea1e26711faf2a203
Author: Vincent Forest <vincent.forest@meso-star.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:08:40 +0200
Small update of the DESCRIPTION section of stardis manual
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/stardis.1.in b/doc/stardis.1.in
@@ -103,15 +103,23 @@ the presence of high temperature gradients.
Increasing the Picard order may be necessary in this case, until the required
convergence is reached.
.Pp
-A main property of this approach is that the resulting algorithms do
-not rely on a volumic mesh of the system: only the representation
-of interfaces is necessary.
+One of the key features of
+.Nm
+is that its algorithms are not based on a volumetric mesh of the system:
+only the representation of its interfaces is required.
+And these are used only as a description of the system, not as a basis
+for calculation, whose discretization would have an impact on the
+accuracy of estimates.
.Pp
.Nm
implements mixed parallelism.
On a single computer (that is, a node), it uses shared memory parallelism while
it relies on Message Passing Interface (MPI) to parallelize calculations between
multiple nodes.
+.Nm
+can therefore be launched either directly or via a process launcher such as
+.Xr mpirun 1
+to distribute the calculation on several computers.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
