A New Public Release of the GIZMO Code
Abstract
We describe a major update to the public GIZMO code. GIZMO has been used in simulations of cosmology; galaxy and star formation and evolution; black hole accretion and feedback; proto-stellar disk dynamics and planet formation; fluid dynamics and plasma physics; dust-gas dynamics; giant impacts and solid-body interactions; collisionless gravitational dynamics; and more. This release of the public code supports: hydrodynamics (using various mesh-free finite-volume Godunov methods or SPH), ideal and non-ideal MHD, anisotropic conduction and viscosity, radiative cooling and chemistry, star and black hole formation and feedback, sink particles, dust-gas (aero)-dynamics (with or without magnetic fields), elastic/plastic dynamics, arbitrary (gas, stellar, degenerate, solid/liquid material) equations of state, passive scalar/turbulent diffusion, large-eddy and shearing boxes, self-gravity with fully-adaptive force softenings, arbitrary cosmological expansion, and on-the-fly group-finding. It is massively-parallel with hybrid MPI+OpenMP scaling verified up to >1 million threads. The code is extensively documented, with test problems and tutorials provided for these different physics modules.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1712.01294,
title = {A New Public Release of the GIZMO Code},
author = {Philip F. Hopkins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01294},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Brief (2 page) overview. The GIZMO code (with an extensive User Guide, animations, and test problems) is available through http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/GIZMO.html or on the repository at https://bitbucket.org/phopkins/gizmo-public