The ignition flag in QUIC_fire.inp does not follow the documentation and behaves unexpectedly. I believe this has been the case for multiple versions, not just 5.3.1.
In the docs and in the QUIC_fire.inp file itself, the accepted ignition flags are listed as 1-6. However, a flag of 7 also works for reading in an ignite.dat file, and often works better than a flag of 6. In the attached quicfire run, using ignition flag 6 gives the following error:
Number of ignitions not specified in gridlist. Invalid input file.
Fatal error, the program will be terminated.
Whereas using flag 7 works as flag 6 is expected to. Daniel Zach and I have been using 7 for a while now, but I think it should be reflected in the documentation. Alternatively, the behavior of flag 6 could be altered to operate in the way flag 7 does currently.
ntutland
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9 months ago
Describe the bug
The ignition flag in QUIC_fire.inp does not follow the documentation and behaves unexpectedly. I believe this has been the case for multiple versions, not just 5.3.1. In the docs and in the QUIC_fire.inp file itself, the accepted ignition flags are listed as 1-6. However, a flag of 7 also works for reading in an ignite.dat file, and often works better than a flag of 6. In the attached quicfire run, using ignition flag 6 gives the following error:
Whereas using flag 7 works as flag 6 is expected to. Daniel Zach and I have been using 7 for a while now, but I think it should be reflected in the documentation. Alternatively, the behavior of flag 6 could be altered to operate in the way flag 7 does currently.
To Reproduce https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iG1gnJfdor9PEcF6ZfKjHops5nmqWRVm
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