General multi-purpose codes

These are software packages that are highly flexible and can be used for a wide variety of physical problems in astrophysics.

• Keywords:3D, amr, cosmo, gravity, grid, hydro, mhd, parallel, particle, selfgravity
• Supported file formats: AMIGA, GADGET, GADGET2, ASCII, Tipsy, ART
• Code paper
• Cosmological magneto-hydrodynamics code. Gravity solved on AMR hierarchy, MHD part on regular grid. OpenMP parallelized. Includes lots of useful analysis software, including the embedded halo finder AHF.
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• Keywords:3D, amr, cosmo, gravity, grid, hydro, parallel, selfgravity, starform
• Supported file formats: ART
• Code paper
• Full cosmological N-body hyrodynamics code. NOT available for public download.
• No website.

• Keywords:1D, 2D, 3D, amr, cosmo, gravity, grid, hydro, parallel, particles, selfgravity, starform
• Supported file formats: HDF
• Code paper
• Full cosmological N-body hyrodynamics code.
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• Keywords:1D, 2D, 3D, amr, cosmo, gravity, grid, gridgeom, gridpolar, hydro, mhd, parallel, particles, selfgravity, starform, thermonuclear
• Supported file formats: HDF
• Code paper
• Hydrodynamics adaptive mesh refinement code. Very expandable; new functionality is continuously appearing. Includes physics for thermonuclear reactions.
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• Keywords:1D, 2D, 3D, amr, cosmo, gravity, grid, gridpolar, hydro, mhd, parallel, particles, radxfer, selfgravity, starform
• Supported file formats: RAMSES
• Code paper
• Full cosmological N-body hydrodynamics code. Many physics modules.
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• Keywords:2D, 3D, cosmo, gravity, hydro, parallel, particle, selfgravity, sph, starform, tree
• Supported file formats: GADGET, HDF
• Code paper
• Full cosmological N-body and hydrodynamics code.
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A multiphase patch for GADGET-2

• Keywords:2D, 3D, cosmo, gravity, hydro, parallel, particle, selfgravity, sph, starform, tree
• Supported file formats: GADGET, HDF
• Code paper
• Optimised Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (OSPH) patch for the GADGET-2 code. This should allow GADGET-2 to resolve (given enough resolution) multiphase flow and boundary instabilities | Download

• Keywords:2D, 3D, cosmo, gravity, hydro, parallel, particle, selfgravity, sph, starform, tree
• Supported file formats: GADGET, HDF
• Code paper
• Modified version of GADGET-2 which uses the Lagrangian “Pressure-Entropy” formulation of the SPH equations. This removes the spurious “surface tension” force substantially improves the treatment of fluid mixing and contact discontinuities.
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• Keywords:3D, cosmo, gravity, hydro, parallel, particle, selfgravity, sph, starform, tree
• Supported file formats: Tipsy
• Code paper
• Full cosmological N-body hydrodynamics code. NOT available for public download.
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• Keywords:3D, cosmo, grape, gravity, hydro, mhd, parallelshare, selfgravity, sph, starform, tree
• Supported file formats: VINE
• Code paper
• Full cosmological parellel (shared memory) N-body sph hydrodynamics code. Several physics modules. Includes support for Grape hardware acceleration.
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• Keywords:3D, amr, cosmo, gravity, grid, hydro, parallelshare, particle, selfgravity, sph, starform
• Supported file formats: HYDRA
• Code paper 1; Code paper 2
• Full cosmological N-body hydrodynamics code. Uses a hybrid grid-sph approach.
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