<div dir="ltr"><pre class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__pre" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:4px;padding:8px;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:none;line-height:1.50001;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:normal;border-radius:4px;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace">Dear FLASH Users,

Happy New Year and best wishes for a fun and productive 2023!

The Flash Center Code Group is excited to announce the public release of 
an updated version of the FLASH code, version 4.7!

This update has a moderate amount of changes from FLASH 4.6.2, and several
new features. These include:
    * Full Braginskii extended-MHD terms (Hall, Nernst, Seebeck, 
      cross-field term, Biermann battery, and anisotropic resistivity)
    * Updated transport coefficients for magnetized plasmas (resistivity, 
      thermal conduction, thermoelectric transport, and viscosity)
    * Implicit magnetic diffusion
    * Interface capturing hydrodynamics
    * Enhancements to implicit solvers, including magnetic diffusion in UG
    * Z-pinch modeling capabilities and current circuits
    * Native readers for LANL SESAME EoS & TOPS opacity formats

The release is available as a tarball, FLASH4.7.tar.gz, at the usual
location on the Flash Center website, <a href="https://flash.rochester.edu">https://flash.rochester.edu</a>

The updated RELEASE-NOTES file is attached. You can also read more about the new FLASH release here:</pre><pre class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__pre" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:4px;padding:8px;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:none;line-height:1.50001;white-space:pre-wrap;word-break:normal;border-radius:4px;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"><a href="https://www.lle.rochester.edu/index.php/2023/01/06/flash-center-releases-new-version-of-flash-code/">https://www.lle.rochester.edu/index.php/2023/01/06/flash-center-releases-new-version-of-flash-code/</a>

Best,
-- the Flash Center Code Group</pre><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">*************************************************************************</div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Adam Reyes<div><img src="https://flash.rochester.edu/site/common/images/email_signature/FLASH.jpg"><br></div><div>Code Group Leader, Flash Center for Computational Science <span> </span><br></div><div>Research Scientist, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy</div><div>University of Rochester</div><div>River Campus: Bausch and Lomb Hall, 369 <span> </span><br></div><div>500 Wilson Blvd. PO Box 270171, Rochester, NY 14627</div><div dir="ltr">Email<span> </span><a href="mailto:adam.reyes@rochester.edu" target="_blank">adam.reyes@rochester.edu</a></div><div>Web<span> </span><a href="https://flash.rochester.edu/" target="_blank">https://flash.rochester.edu</a><br></div><div> (he / him / his)</div><div><img src="https://flash.rochester.edu/site/common/images/email_signature/FLASH-pride-sml.png"><br></div>*************************************************************************</div></div></div></div></div>