SU2 is a suite of

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software tools written in C++ for the numerical solution of

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s (PDE) and performing

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. The primary applications are

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and aerodynamic

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, but has been extended to treat more general equations such as

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and chemically reacting flows. SU2 supports continuous and discrete adjoint for calculating the sensitivities/gradients of a scalar field.

Developers

SU2 is being developed by individuals and organized teams around the world. The SU2 Lead Developers are: Dr. Francisco Palacios and Dr. Thomas D. Economon. The most active groups developing SU2 are: * Prof. Juan J. Alonso's group at

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. * Prof. Piero Colonna's group at

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. * Prof. Nicolas R. Gauger's group at

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. * Prof. Alberto Guardone's group at

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. * Prof. Rafael Palacios' group at

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Capabilities

The SU2 tools suite solution suite includes *High-fidelity analysis and adjoint-based design using unstructured mesh technology. *Compressible and incompressible

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, Navier-Stokes, and RANS solvers. *Additional PDE solvers for electrodynamics, linear elasticity, heat equation, wave equation and thermochemical non-equilibrium. *Convergence acceleration (multi-grid, preconditioning, etc.). *Sensitivity information via the continuous adjoint methodology approach. *Adaptive, goal-oriented mesh refinement and deformation. *Modularized

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object-oriented design. *Parallelization with

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scripts for automation. *

FEATool Multiphysics FEATool Multiphysics ("Finite Element Analysis Toolbox for Multiphysics") is a physics, finite element analysis (FEA), and PDE simulation toolbox. FEATool Multiphysics features the ability to model fully coupled heat transfer, fluid dynamics, che ...

feature
built-in GUI and CLI interfaces for SU2

Release history

License

SU2 is free and open source software, released under the

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version 3 (SU2 v1.0 and v2.0) and

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version 2.1 (SU2 v2.0.7 and later versions).

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References

External links

Official resources

SU2 home pageSU2 Github repository

Community resources

SU2 Forum at CFD OnlineSU2 wiki page at CFD Online

Other resources

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