Purpose

The purpose of this PR is to start a discussion on point_mode runs in CHM without requiring a mesh. A future version of CHM could have an option to have something like this but not hacky.

Details

The following are changes I made to core.cpp and point_mode to allow the running of a single module within CHM but essentially separetely from it. Manually written mesher file allows fine grained parameter control without needed to deal with built in CHM mesh components.

Currently, to run point_mode one is required to specificy a point in space. In order words, one needs to have a full prepared CHM mesh. These changes allowed for a manually written mesher file and not having to worry about the "mesh" being at a valid grid point.

1073            out.face = _mesh->face(0); 

Takes the first face, and in a 0D (or 1D in the case of vertical processes) face(0) is the only triangle defined in the mesher file.

In point_mode, use of a user defined flag unit_test_new_modules allows for user defined, run specific depends and provides in the constructor and fetching from met files in the run function.

if(unit_test_new_modules)
{
    depends_from_met("SWE");
   provides("swe");
    // and more
};

Note

This point_mode version is made to run modules that don't yet exist in CHM but are in this PR draft.

I intend to include manual mesher file and config file to this PR in the future for clarity.