2.8.5. Validation

Most users do not need to run the validation material routinely.

This page collects:

  • tiny standalone RADMC-3D smoke-test models

  • reference ordering information

  • suggestions for checking that a local RADMC-3D installation accepts the exported files

The two reference model directories are:

  • models/unigrid_minimal for a regular Cartesian grid

  • models/octree_minimal for an oct-tree AMR grid

From inside one of those directories, run:

radmc3d mctherm
radmc3d image lambda 10 npix 16

Successful execution should create outputs such as dust_temperature.dat, dust_temperature.bdat, or image.out. The exact numbers are not the point; the point is that RADMC-3D accepts the grid and density files.

For unigrid_minimal, the 8 density values follow the standard regular-grid order used by RADMC-3D. For octree_minimal, the 15 density values follow the recursive leaf order of the small oct-tree example in the RADMC-3D manual.

The standalone smoke tests are ASCII for portability and inspection. The DISPATCH exporter writes binary field files by default, which is the right choice for real snapshot exports.