An AnalyzerManager is a container for Analyzer objects (i.e., instances of subclasses of Analyzer) that can be used to perform periodic actions involving data analysis or output of data to a file during a simulation or postprocessing operation.

See also: AnalyzerManager (class API); BdSimulator (manual page); McSimulator (manual page)

Parameter File

The parameter file format, including all optional parameters, is shown below:

AnalyzerManager{
  baseInterval*      int (1 by default)
 
  Analyzer#*{ .... }
  Analyzer#*{ .... }
     .
     .
     .
 
}

After the optional baseInterval parameter (which is usually omitted), the AnalyzerManager block contains a sequence of any number of selectable Analyzer subblocks that ends when the closing bracket for the AnalyzerManager block is reached. Each such Analyzer subblock must start with an opening line that contains the label (or class name) for a known analyzer algorithm that is implemented by a subclass of the Analyzer base class.

baseInterval : The baseInterval parameter is an optional integer parameter that is set equal to 1 by default. If the baseInterval is set to a value greater than 1, then the interval parameter for every analyzer is required to be a multiple of the baseInterval. If the baseInterval parameter is omitted, and the default is used, then this requirement does not impose any constraint on the allowed values of the interval parameters. The baseInterval parameter was introduced to allow an optimization in which the interval values for the individual analyzers are checked only during time steps that are multiples of the baseInterval. The amount of time saved by this optimization is normally negligible, and so users should feel free to omit this parameter and use the default.