The Pencil Code
a modular MPI code for differential equations and particles: multipurpose and multiuser-maintained
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Quick start guide for beginners, samples, manual & [more...]The Pencil Code a modular MPI code for differential equations and particles: multipurpose and multiuser-maintained. It is highly modular and can easily be adapted to different types of problems. The code runs efficiently under MPI on massively parallel shared- or distributed-memory computers.
The Pencil Code or equivalent codes have been used for many different applications in a (more or less) astrophysical context. Examples are
![[Alpha-effect in box]](/pics/alpha.png) |
![[Outflow from accretion disc]](/pics/outflc2.png)
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![[Perm dynamo experiment]](/pics/Perm.png) |
| Turbulence simulations |
Outflows from accretion discs |
Dynamo experiments |
Available as open source code on https://github.com/pencil-code/pencil-code/. It is being updated after each change in the developer's repository, which can be accessed both through svn and git; see https://pencil-code.org/download.php.