Code_Saturne
code_saturne is a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics free computer software package. Developed since 1997 at Électricité de France R&D, code_saturne is distributed under the 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...).
| Developer(s) | Électricité de France |
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| Stable release | 8.1.0
/ 12 December 2023 |
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| Written in | Fortran and C, scripts in Python, GUI uses PyQt |
| Operating system | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix-like, Windows Subsystem for Linux |
| Platform | Personal computers, clusters, supercomputers |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | Official English website: code-saturne |
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 radiative heat transfer, combustion (gas, coal, ...), magneto-hydro dynamics, compressible flows, two-phase flows (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).