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The Lagrangian Particles (LP) module of the PLUTO code offers a powerful simulation tool to predict the non-thermal emission produced by shock accelerated particles in large-scale relativistic magnetized astrophysics flows. The LPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Alessio Suriano , Stefano Truzzi , Agnese Costa , Marco Rossazza , Nitin Shukla , Andrea Mignone , Vittoria Berta , Claudio Zanni

We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2 and 3 spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multi-physics, multi-algorithm modular environment particularly oriented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Mignone , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia , T. Matsakos , O. Tesileanu , C. Zanni , A. Ferrari

High-resolution tri-axial simulations are indispensable for realistically co-modeling the dynamical signatures and the radiative fingerprints of astrophysical jets, which are becoming increasingly important in modern computational studies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Gourab Giri , Andrea Mignone , Alessio Suriano , Marco Rossazza , Stefano Truzzi

We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD and RMHD). The current release exploits, in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mignone , C. Zanni , P. Tzeferacos , B. van Straalen , P. Colella , G. Bodo

The numerical study of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) plays a crucial role in high-energy astrophysics, but unfortunately is computationally demanding, given the complex physics involved (high Lorentz factor flows, extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Luca Del Zanna , Simone Landi , Lorenzo Serafini , Matteo Bugli , Emanuele Papini

This paper describes the main features of a pioneering unsteady solver for simulating ideal two-fluid plasmas on unstructured grids, taking profit of GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units). The code, which has been…

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on the ideal MHD equations have become a powerful tool for modeling phenomena in a wide range of applications including laboratory, astrophysical, and space plasmas. In general, high-resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Hon-Cheng Wong , Un-Hong Wong , Xueshang Feng , Zesheng Tang

In recent years, numerical simulations have become indispensable for addressing complex astrophysical problems. The MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) framework represents a key tool for investigating the dynamical evolution of astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Giancarlo Mattia , Daniele Crocco , David Melon Fuksman , Matteo Bugli , Vittoria Berta , Eleonora Puzzoni , Andrea Mignone , Bhargav Vaidya

This paper presents the benchmarking and scaling studies of a GPU accelerated three dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic code. The code is developed keeping an eye to explain the large and intermediate scale magnetic field…

We provide a thorough comparison of the GMHD3D code and the PLUTO4.4 code for both two and three-dimensional hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic problems. The open-source finite-volume solver PLUTO4.4 and the in-house developed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Shishir Biswas , Rajaraman Ganesh

We present a numerical implementation for the solution of the relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics equations, designed as an independent module within the freely available code PLUTO. The radiation transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Andrea Mignone

The transport of energy through radiation is very important in many astrophysical phenomena. In dynamical problems the time-dependent equations of radiation hydrodynamics have to be solved. We present a newly developed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefan M. Kolb , Matthias Stute , Wilhelm Kley , Andrea Mignone

This paper presents the implementation of a HLLC finite volume solver using GPU technology for the solution of shallow water problems in two dimensions. It compares both CPU and GPU approaches for implementing all the solver's steps. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Fabrice Zaoui

We describe an implementation of a particle physics module available for the PLUTO code, appropriate for the dynamical evolution of a plasma consisting of a thermal fluid and a non-thermal component represented by relativistic charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 A. Mignone , G. Bodo , B. Vaidya , G. Mattia

This paper introduces the Sheffield Magnetohydrodynamics Algorithm Using GPUs (SMAUG+), an advanced numerical code for solving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) problems, using multi-GPU systems. Multi-GPU systems facilitate the development of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 N. Gyenge , M. K. Griffiths , R. Erdélyi

We present an alternative GPU acceleration for plane waves pseudopotentials electronic structure codes designed for systems that have small unit cells but require a large number of k points to sample the Brillouin zone as happens, for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Xuejun Gong , Andrea Dal Corso

We present the FARGO3D code, recently publicly released. It is a magnetohydrodynamics code developed with special emphasis on protoplanetary disks physics and planet-disk interactions, and parallelized with MPI. The hydrodynamics algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Frédéric Masset

We present the first open-source, GPU-based code for complex plasmas. The code, OpenDust, aims to provide researchers both experimenters and theorists user-friendly and high-performance tool for self-consistent calculation forces, acting on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 D. Kolotinskii , A. Timofeev

We present Horizon, a new graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated code to solve the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in a given spacetime. We evaluate the code in several test cases, including magnetized Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Burkhard Zink

We present a numerical implementation of the guiding center approximation to describe the relativistic motion of charged test particles in the PLUTO code for astrophysical plasma dynamics. The guiding center approximation (GCA) removes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 A. Mignone , H. Haudemand , E. Puzzoni
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