That seemed to have worked, thanks!

I just have another quick question, if you wouldn't mind? In my function to generate my new field, there's an if statement that looks at the value of the temperature: if data['gas','InternalEnergy'] <= 1e4:
However, I get the error: "The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()." I wasn't sure how to loop over the elements of the array to access a specific element, or if that's even possible? Using a.any() or a.all() don't seem to fit the bill for this particular problem, either. Thanks!
-Jared

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343@gmail.com> wrote:


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Jared Coughlin <Jared.W.Coughlin.29@nd.edu> wrote:
Great, thanks! I tried that, and it gave me the error: "YTQuantity instances must be scalars." I'm not sure what to do about that, since all of these quantities depend on either temperature or density, both of which are arrays. I tried looking at the doc page for YTQuantity, but I didn't see anything that looked like it could solve this problem, though it's possible I missed it.  

You need to use YTArray instead. YTQuantity is a subclass of YTArray that only holds scalars. YTArray can hold arrays of data with units.
 
-Jared

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343@gmail.com> wrote:


On Monday, August 24, 2015, Cameron Hummels <chummels@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jared,

The problem is one of units.  In order to make common arithmetic work like addition, yt requires both arguments going into the addition operator to have the same units.

In your line, 

fHI = (recomb * ne) / (gamma_HI + (gamma_c *ne))

you're adding two things (gamma_HI) and (gamma_c*ne) that have different units--in this case, something with (code_mass/code_length**3) units and something with no units defined as (1).

Just a quick clarification: they need not have the same units, just the same dimensions.  You can add two quantities with units of grams and solar masses (for example) but not grams and liters.
 

In order to fix this, you can re-assign the appropriate units to different arrays or quantities with the YTArray and YTQuantity classes.  In this case, make sure that the two arguments going into the addition have the same units.  If you want to recast "ne" to have number density units, you can do this:  from yt.units.yt_array import YTQuantity; ne = YTQuantity(ne, 'cm**-3').  For more info on units, check out http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/analyzing/units/index.html

I hope this helps!

Cameron

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Jared Coughlin <Jared.W.Coughlin.29@nd.edu> wrote:
Hello! I have a gadget snapshot for which the standard internal energy block has been replaced by one containing the temperature.  I'm trying to calculate a derived field for the neutral hydrogen number density,  but I'm getting an error when I try to do ds.add_field():


However, I get an error about being unable to add quantities with differing units:


The docs say not to do any unit conversion because that is apparently taken care of behind the scenes, so I didn't.  I was just wondering if there was a way around this? Thanks! 
-Jared


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