The FLASH Code

The Flash Center Code Group is pleased to announce the release of an updated version of the FLASH code: FLASH v4.8!

The FLASH code is a publicly available, high performance computing, multi-physics application code. FLASH consists of inter-operable modules that can be combined to generate different applications. The FLASH architecture allows arbitrarily many alternative implementations of its components to co-exist and interchange with each other. A simple and elegant mechanism exists for customization of code functionality without the need to modify the core implementation of the source. A built-in unit test framework combined with regression tests that run nightly on multiple platforms verify the code.

FLASH CAPABILITIES


Physics Solvers :

  • Hydrodynamics: Unsplit PPM, WENO, PCM, GP; Split PPM; 2T+Radiation, Interface Capturing Hydrodynamics
  • Magnetohydrodynamics: Unsplit Staggered Mesh; Split 8 wave
  • Full Braginskii Extended-MHD: Hall, Nernst, Seebeck, Cross-field Term, Biermann Battery, and Anisotropic Resistivity
  • Equation of State: Ideal Gas; Degenerate Ionized Plasma; Multimaterial Tabular (IONMIX, PROPACEOS, SESAME)
  • Radiation Transfer: Multigroup Flux-limited Diffusion
  • Diffusion and Anisotropic Thermal Conduction: Implicit with AMR and UG
  • Diffusion and Anisotropic Resistivity: Implicit with UG
  • Laser Energy Deposition: Geometric Optics with Inverse Bremsstrahlung
  • Current Drive and Circuit Models for Pulsed-power Drivers
  • Opacity: Constant; Multimaterial Tabular (IONMIX, PROPACEOS, TOPS)
  • Particles: Tracer; Massive; Sink; Charged
  • Nuclear Burning
  • Gravity: Constant; PointMass; Planar; Self Gravity
  • Cosmology
  • Transport Coefficients for Magnetized Plasmas: Magnetic Resistivity, Thermal Conductivity, Viscosity, thermoelectric transport
  • Primordial Chemistry
  • Simulated Diagnostics: Proton Radiography; Thomson Scattering; X-Ray Imaging


    Infrastructure :

  • Driver: Unsplit; Split
  • Grid: Uniform Grid; AMR (PARAMESH); AMR (Chombo)
  • GridParticles: Lagrangian Framework
  • GridSolvers: Multigrid; Multipole; Barnes-Hut Tree; PFFT; Direct Solvers for Uniform Grid
  • IO: HDF5 ; PnetCDF
  • Multispecies
  • RuntimeParameters
  • Monitor: MPI Timers; Hooks for TAU

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