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  • Arepo is a massively parallel gravity and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics, designed for problems of large dynamic range. It employs a finite-volume approach to discretize the equations of hydrodynamics on a moving Voronoi mesh, and a tree-particle-mesh method for gravitational interactions. Arepo is originally optimized for cosmological simulations of structure formation, but has also been used in many other applications in astrophysics.
  • FLASH is a publicly available high performance application code which has evolved into a modular, extensible software system from a collection of unconnected legacy codes. FLASH consists of inter-operable modules that can be combined to generate different applications. The FLASH architecture allows arbitrarily many alternative implementations of its components to co-exist and interchange with each other. A simple and elegant mechanism exists for customization of code functionality without the need to modify the core implementation of the source. A built-in unit test framework combined with regression tests that run nightly on multiple platforms verify the code.
  • GADGET-4 is a massively parallel code for N-body/hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. It is a flexible code that can be applied to a variety of different types of simulations, offering a number of sophisticated simulation algorithms. An account of the numerical algorithms employed by the code is given in the original code paper, subsequent publications, and this documentation.
  • Phantom is a 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics. It was written and developed by Daniel Price with contributions from many others (see AUTHORS). It is designed to be a fast 3D SPH code with a low memory footprint, for production runs. It is not a code for testing algorithms (use NDSPMHD instead).
  • FARGO3D is a numerical code for simulating the evolution of three-dimensional, rotating, shearing flows. FARGO3D has been used to study a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, including the formation of planets, the evolution of protoplanetary disks, and the dynamics of galaxies. The code is open-source and is available for download on GitHub.
  • Torch is a framework that couples gas and N-body dynamics using FLASH and ph4 in the AMUSE framework. Torch is mainly used to study complex problems related to the formation and evolution of star clusters.

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