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consider simplifying the NSE table integration

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading PR 1812 and the existing self-consistent NSE table time-integration path. Identify where the table currently provides <B/A> and where the update to (rho e) is computed. Done means evaluating and documenting whether storing enuc directly in the table provides a sound replacement for the finite-difference approach.

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Description

integrator nse sdc

In https://github.com/AMReX-Astro/Microphysics/pull/1812 the time-integration algorithm for self-consistent NSE is modified to compute the update to (rho e) using the instantaneous value computed from the network, instead of doing the finite-difference (in time) approach we use with <B/A> with the table.

We could make this same change with the table, if we store the enuc value directly in the table. This is something we should experiment with.

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