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/
You can download Castro and all the necessary dependencies (AMReX and the Microphysics repo) using the script:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AMReX-Astro/Castro/development/Util/scripts/get_castro.sh
Running this will clone the repositories and create a file
castro_exports.sh
which you can source or copy to your .bashrc
to define the necessary environment variables.
The User's Guide in Castro/Docs/
(type make
to build from
LaTeX source) 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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