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BM1 and BM2 need some revisions #1410

Open wd15 opened 2 years ago

wd15 commented 2 years ago

@tkphd, please expand on this

tkphd commented 2 years ago

For both BM1 (spinodal) and BM2 (Ostwald), part a imposes periodic boundary conditions but the initial condition is not periodic. This causes an initial transient as abrupt transitions at the boundaries rearrange themselves to align.

The solution is three-fold:

  1. Make a note in the current variants to let people know this is by design.
  2. Create new variants for both parts (a) with periodic initial conditions, without changing parts (b).
  3. Introduce the initially-periodic variant as the benchmark of record, while preserving visibility of the original results.