an adaptive mesh, astrophysical radiation hydrodynamics simulation code
Castro is an adaptive-mesh compressible radiation hydrodynamics
code for astrophysical flows. Castro supports a general equation of
state, full Poisson gravity, and reactive flows, and is parallelized
with MPI + OpenMP.
More information on Castro can be found here:
http://amrex-astro.github.io/Castro/
To build Castro, you need a copy of the AMReX library:
https://github.com/AMReX-Codes/amrex
There is a User's Guide in Castro/Docs/ (type make to build from
LaTeX source) that will guide you through running your first problem.
A PDF of the User's Guide can be found at
http://bender.astro.sunysb.edu/Castro/staging/Castro/Docs/CastroUserGuide.pdf
A doxygen-generated call graph for Castro is available here:
http://bender.astro.sunysb.edu/Castro/staging/Castro/html/
New features are committed to the development branch. Nightly
regression testing is used to ensure that no answers change (or if
they do, that the changes were expected). No changes should ever be
pushed directly into master.
On the first workday of each month, we perform a merge of
development into master, in coordination with AMReX, Maestro,
and Microphysics. For this merge to take place, we need to be
passing the regression tests. To accommodate this need, we close the
merge window into development a few days before the merge day.
While the merge window is closed, only bug fixes should be pushed into
development. Once the merge from development -> master is done,
the merge window reopens.
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