[Getdp] EDF Code_Saturn released under GPL

[Olivier Castany]

Hello,

if somebody is interested : EDF has released Code_Saturn under GPL.

www.edf.com

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Code_Saturne® is EDF's general purpose computational fluid
dynamics software. Developed since 1997 at EDF R&D, 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 Simulations...).

Code_Saturne can be coupled to EDF's thermal software Syrthes.
It can also be used jointly with EDF's structural analysis software 
Code_Aster, in particular in the Salomé platform.

Source code : F77, C99, Py
430,000 lines : 50% Fortran 77, 43% C99, 7% Python

Portable on Linux PCs and all Unix platforms tested so far (HP-UX, 
Solaris, Cray, OSF1...)