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RAMSES was developped in Saclay to study large scale structure and galaxy formation.
It is now a rather flexible package to be used for general purpose simulations in self-gravitating fluid dynamics.
It is written in Fortran 90 with extensive use of the MPI library.
The current version is 1.0: it is a free software for non-commercial use only.

RAMSES

This code is a grid-based hydro solver with adaptive mesh refinement. The data structure is called a "fully threaded tree". As opposed to "patch-based AMR", cells are refined on a cell by cell basis: it is therefore called a "tree-based AMR". A very simple interface based on "Fortran namelists" can be used to specify runtime parameters. A few routines can be modified to set more complex initial or boundary conditions. The 4 main modules are:
- the AMR module with grid refinement, parallel communications and time steping.
- the hydro module with a second-order unsplit Godunov solver with various slope limiters and Riemann solvers.
- the N body module for colisionneless particles dynamics
- the Poisson module with a multigrid solver for the coarse grid and a Conjugate-Gradient solver on the fine grids.

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RAMSES was written by Romain TEYSSIER, and is under CEA Copyright.
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