Calculate time step based on a given CFL number of cubes in a electrodynamic simulation.
This subroutine calculates the time step with respect to a given cfl number for simulations of electrodynamic processes. Please notice that this routine assumes constant material parameters.
| Type | Intent | Optional | Attributes | Name | ||
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| real(kind=rk), | intent(in) | :: | cfl | CFL number |
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| real(kind=rk), | intent(in) | :: | length | Reference length of all elements |
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| real(kind=rk), | intent(in) | :: | speedOfLight | Speed of light |
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| real(kind=rk), | intent(out) | :: | dt | Resulting time step width |
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| integer, | intent(in) | :: | nPoly | The number of polynomials per spatial direction |