Code_Saturne
| Developer(s) | Électricité de France |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 8.1.1[1]
/ 9 February 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | supercomputers |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | Official English website: code-saturne |
code_saturne is a general-purpose
GNU GPL
licence.
It is based on a co-located finite-volume approach that accepts meshes with any type of cell (tetrahedral, hexahedral, prismatic, pyramidal, polyhedral...) and any type of grid structure (unstructured, block structured, hybrid, conforming or with hanging nodes...).
Its basic capabilities enable the handling of either incompressible or expandable flows with or without heat transfer and turbulence (mixing length, 2-equation models, v2f,
Reynolds stress models, Large eddy simulation
...).
Dedicated modules are available for specific physics such as Euler-Lagrange approach
with two-way coupling), extensions to specific applications (e.g. for atmospheric environment).
The current production version is 8.0 (2023-06-30). [2]
code saturne install
code_saturne may be installed on a
Ubuntu. Alternatively, CAE Linux (latest version [1]
), includes code_saturne pre-installed.
The code also works well in the Windows subsystem for Linux.
Interoperability
code saturne supports multiple mesh formats. The following formats, from open source or commercial tools, are currently supported by Code Saturne:
Supported mesh input formats (source):
- SIMAIL (NOPO) – (INRIA/Distene)
- I-DEAS universal
- MED
- CGNS
- EnSight 6
- EnSight Gold
- GAMBITneutral
- Gmsh
- Simcenter STAR-CCM+
Supported post-processing output formats
Alternative software
- Advanced Simulation Library (open source software AGPL)[3]
- ANSYSCFX (proprietary software)
- ANSYSFluent (proprietary software)
- Basilisk
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- FEATool Multiphysics[4]
- Gerris Flow Solver (GPL)
- OpenFOAM (GPL)
- Palabos Flow Solver (AGPL)
- STAR-CCM+ (proprietary software)
- SU2 code (LGPL)
See also
References
- ^ "Release 8.1.1". 9 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ https://www.code-saturne.org/cms/web/news/codesaturne-80-released
- ^ Advanced Simulation Library Homepage
- ^ FEATool Multiphysics homepage
External links
- (in English) Official English website
- (in French) Official french website
- (in French) Code Saturne Installation on Mandriva Linux
- (in English) Code_Saturne Overview (pdf, 2 pages)
- (in English) Overview of EDF's Open Source initiative (pdf, 2 pages)
- (in English) code-saturne.blogspot.com : Independent user's Blog about SALOME, Code_Saturne, ParaView and Numerical Modelling
- (in English) CAE Linux : LiveDVD with Code_Saturne, Code_Aster and the Salomé platform
- (in English) Website at the University of Manchester