Awesome Astrophysical Simulation Codes 
A curated list of awesome astrophysical simulation software
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| Arepo |
Massively parallel moving Voronoi mesh cosmological simulation code. |
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| Athena++ |
Radiation GRMHD code and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework. |
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| Castro |
Adaptive mesh, rad/mhd/hydro simulation code for massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. |
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| ChaNGa |
Charm N-body Gravity solver and SPH. |
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| Cholla |
GPU-based hydro code. |
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| Dedalus |
Flexible framework for solving PDEs with modern spectral methods. |
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| Einstein Toolkit |
Community computational infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. |
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| Enzo |
Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics. |
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| FLASH |
Adaptive Mesh Hydrodynamics Code for Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes. |
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| Gadget |
Parallel cosmological N-body and SPH code. |
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| GAMER |
GPU-accelerated Adaptive Mesh Refinement code for astrophysics. |
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| Gizmo |
Flexible, massively-parallel, multi-physics simulation code. |
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| MAESTROeX |
Massively parallel low Mach number stellar hydrodynamics code. |
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| Nyx |
Adaptive mesh, cosmological hydrodynamics simulation code. |
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| Pencil |
High-order finite-difference code for compressible hydrodynamic flows with magnetic fields and particles. |
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| PHANTOM |
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics. |
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| PLUTO |
Code targeting high Mach number flows in astrophysical fluid dynamics. |
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| QUOKKA |
First two-moment AMR radiation hydrodynamics on GPUs for astrophysics. |
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| RAMSES |
Code to model astrophysical systems, featuring self-gravitating, magnetized, compressible, radiative fluid flows. |
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| REBOUND |
Open-source multi-purpose N-body code. |
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| SWIFT |
Modern highly-parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications. |
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| TARDIS |
Fast 1D spectral code for supernovae with a vibrant community focused on training. |
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Finite Difference |
Finite Volume |
Finite Element |
Spectral |
SPH |
N-body |
Eulerian |
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Lagrangian |
AMR |
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| Dedalus |
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| Einstein Toolkit |
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| PHANTOM |
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| REBOUND |
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| SWIFT |
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| TARDIS |
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Hydrodynamics |
MHD |
Radiation |
Self-Gravity |
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| Arepo |
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| Athena++ |
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| ChaNGa |
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| Cholla |
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| Dedalus |
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| Einstein Toolkit |
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| Enzo |
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| FLASH |
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| GAMER |
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| Gizmo |
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| Nyx |
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| PHANTOM |
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| QUOKKA |
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| RAMSES |
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High-Performance Features
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MPI |
GPU |
| Arepo |
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| Athena++ |
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| Castro |
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| ChaNGa |
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| Cholla |
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| Dedalus |
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| Einstein Toolkit |
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| Enzo |
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| FLASH |
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| Gadget |
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| GAMER |
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| Gizmo |
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| MAESTROeX |
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| Nyx |
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| Pencil |
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| PLUTO |
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| PHANTOM |
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| QUOKKA |
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| RAMSES |
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| REBOUND |
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| SWIFT |
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| TARDIS |
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Contributions to the list are welcome! Contributing guidelines can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md
