code_saturne is a general-purpose

computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate t ...

free computer software package. Developed since 1997 at

Électricité de France Électricité de France S.A. (literally ''Electricity of France''), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. Headquartered in Paris, with €71.2 billion in revenues in ...

R&D, code_saturne is distributed under the

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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 Large eddy simulation (LES) is a mathematical model for turbulence used in computational fluid dynamics. It was initially proposed in 1963 by Joseph Smagorinsky to simulate atmospheric air currents, and first explored by Deardorff (1970). LES is ...

...). Dedicated modules are available for specific physics such as

radiative heat transfer Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation generated by the thermal motion of particles in matter. Thermal radiation is generated when heat from the movement of charges in the material (electrons and protons in common forms of matter) is ...

combustion Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combust ...

(gas, coal, heavy fuel oil, ...), magneto-hydro dynamics,

compressible flow Compressible flow (or gas dynamics) is the branch of fluid mechanics that deals with flows having significant changes in fluid density. While all flows are compressible, flows are usually treated as being incompressible when the Mach number (the ...

s, two-phase flows ( Euler-Lagrange approach with two-way coupling), extensions to specific applications (e.g. for atmospheric environment). Actual version is 8.0 (2023-06-30).

code saturne install

code_saturne may be installed on a

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or other

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system by downloading and building it. No system files are changed, so administrator privileges are not required if the code is installed in a user's directory. Packages for code_saturne are also available on

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and

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. Alternatively, CAE Linux (latest versio

, 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 format
(source)

(NOPO) – (INRIA/Distene) * I-DEAS universal
MED
* CGNS
EnSight
6
EnSight
Gold *

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neutral * Gmsh * Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Supported post-processing output formats
EnSight
Gold
MED
* CGNS

Alternative software

* Advanced Simulation Library (open source software AGPL) * ANSYS CFX (proprietary software) * ANSYS Fluent (proprietary software)
Basilisk
* COMSOL Multiphysics * FEATool Multiphysics
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/ref> * Gerris Flow Solver (GPL) *

OpenFOAM OpenFOAM (for "Open-source Field Operation And Manipulation") is a C++ toolbox for the development of customized numerical analysis, numerical solvers, and pre-/post-processing utilities for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, most pr ...

(GPL)
Palabos Flow Solver
(AGPL) * STAR-CCM+ (proprietary software) *

SU2 code SU2 is a suite of open-source software tools written in C++ for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) and performing PDE-constrained optimization. The primary applications are computational fluid dynamics and aerodynami ...

(LGPL)

References

External links

*
Official English website
*

*
Code Saturne Installation on Mandriva Linux
*
Code_Saturne Overview (pdf, 2 pages)
*
Overview of EDF's Open Source initiative (pdf, 2 pages)
* code-saturne.blogspot.com : Independent user's Blog about SALOME, Code_Saturne, ParaView and Numerical Modelling *
CAE Linux
: LiveDVD with Code_Saturne, ''Code_Aster'' and the Salomé platform *
Website at the University of Manchester
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code saturne install

Interoperability

Alternative software

See also

References

External links