CGYRO output files

It is not not recommended to read these files directly. Rather, we encourage the use of the CGYRO python data interface.

Time-independent output

Filename	Short description
out.cgyro.egrid	Energy mesh and various weights
out.cgyro.equilibrium	Physics input data
out.cgyro.grids	Mesh dimensions and coordinates
out.cgyro.hosts	MPI ranks and hostnames
out.cgyro.info	Human-readable description of simulation
out.cgyro.memory	Memory usage statistics
out.cgyro.mpi	Recommendations for choosing MPI tasks and OMP threads
out.cgyro.version	Version information and timestamp for simulation
bin.cgyro.geo	GK equation coefficients versus $\theta$

Common time-dependent output

Filename	Short description	Switch
out.cgyro.time	Time and error vector
out.cgyro.timing	Kernel timer data
bin.cgyro.freq	Mode frequency vector
bin.cgyro.kxky_phi	$\delta \varphi (k_x^0,k_y,t)$
bin.cgyro.kxky_apar	$\delta A_{\parallel }(k_x^0,k_y,t)$	FIELD_PRINT_FLAG = 1
bin.cgyro.kxky_bpar	$\delta B_{\parallel }(k_x^0,k_y,t)$	FIELD_PRINT_FLAG = 1
bin.cgyro.kxky_n	$\delta n_a(k_x^0,k_y,t)$	MOMENT_PRINT_FLAG = 1
bin.cgyro.kxky_e	$\delta E_a(k_x^0,k_y,t)$	MOMENT_PRINT_FLAG = 1
bin.cgyro.kxky_v	$\delta v_a(k_x^0,k_y,t)$	MOMENT_PRINT_FLAG = 1
bin.cgyro.ky_flux	${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_a,{\mathrm{\Pi }}_a,Q_a$ versus $(k_y,t)$
bin.cgyro.ky_cflux	${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_a,{\mathrm{\Pi }}_a,Q_a$ (half domain) versus $(k_y,t)$

Restart data

Filename	Short description
out.cgyro.tag	Restart tag file (contains time index and value)
bin.cgyro.restart	Binary restart file

Output Normalization

Ion sound gyroradius

$${\rho }_{s,\mathrm{u}\mathrm{n}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{t}}=\frac{c_s}{e{B}_{\mathrm{u}\mathrm{n}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{t}}/(m_{D}c)}$$

Ion sound speed

$$c_s=\sqrt{T_e/m_D}$$

gyroBohm particle flux

$${\mathrm{\Gamma }}_{\mathrm{G}\mathrm{B}}=n_e{c}_s({\rho }_{s,\mathrm{u}\mathrm{n}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{t}}/a{)}^2$$

gyroBohm momentum flux

$${\mathrm{\Pi }}_{\mathrm{G}\mathrm{B}}=n_{e}a{T}_e({\rho }_{s,\mathrm{u}\mathrm{n}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{t}}/a{)}^2$$

gyroBohm energy flux

$$Q_{\mathrm{G}\mathrm{B}}=n_e{c}_s{T}_e({\rho }_{s,\mathrm{u}\mathrm{n}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{t}}/a{)}^2$$