From 3b7bcd89f09986ea02f9dc909f23f20e7803bbde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Revathi Jambunathan <41089244+RevathiJambunathan@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 09:26:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fix doc for coarsening (#4588) --- Docs/source/usage/parameters.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Docs/source/usage/parameters.rst b/Docs/source/usage/parameters.rst index 0597b21c393..674f86143e3 100644 --- a/Docs/source/usage/parameters.rst +++ b/Docs/source/usage/parameters.rst @@ -2602,8 +2602,8 @@ In-situ capabilities can be used by turning on Sensei or Ascent (provided they a Only works with ``.format = plotfile``. * ``.coarsening_ratio`` (list of `int`) optional (default `1 1 1`) - Reduce size of the field output by this ratio in each dimension. - (This is done by averaging the field over 1 or 2 points along each direction, depending on the staggering). + Reduce size of the selected diagnostic fields output by this ratio in each dimension. + (For a ratio of N, this is done by averaging the fields over N or (N+1) points depending on the staggering). If ``blocking_factor`` and ``max_grid_size`` are used for the domain decomposition, as detailed in the :ref:`domain decomposition ` section, ``coarsening_ratio`` should be an integer divisor of ``blocking_factor``. If ``warpx.numprocs`` is used instead, the total number of cells in a given