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Written in
  
C++, Python

Initial release
  
January 2012; 5 years ago (2012-01)

Stable release
  
5.0.0 / January 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01)

Operating system
  
Unix/Linux/OS X/Windows

Type
  
Computational fluid dynamics, Simulation software

License
  
GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1

SU2 is a suite of open-source software tools written in C++ for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) and performing PDE constrained optimization. The primary applications are computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic shape optimization, but has been extended to treat more general equations such as electrodynamics and chemically reacting flows. SU2 supports continius and discrete adjoint for calculating the sensitivitys/gradients of a scalar field.

Contents

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 Stanford University.
  • Prof. Piero Colonna's group at Delft University of Technology.
  • Prof. Nicolas R. Gauger's group at Kaiserslautern University of Technology.
  • Prof. Alberto Guardone's group at Polytechnic University of Milan.
  • Prof. Rafael Palacios' group at Imperial College London.

    • Capabilities

    The SU2 tools suite solution suite includes

  • High-fidelity analysis and adjoint-based design using unstructured mesh technology.
  • Compressible and incompressible Euler, 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 C++ object-oriented design.
  • Parallelization with MPI.
  • Python scripts for automation.

    • License

    SU2 is free and open source software, released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (SU2 v1.0 and v2.0) and GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (SU2 v2.0.7 and later versions).

    Free and open-source software

  • Advanced Simulation Library (AGPL)
  • CLAWPACK
  • Code Saturne (GPL)
  • FEATool Multiphysics
  • Gerris Flow Solver (GPL)
  • OpenFOAM
  • OpenFVM
  • Palabos Flow Solver

    • Proprietary software

  • ADINA CFD
  • ANSYS CFX
  • ANSYS Fluent
  • Azore
  • Pumplinx
  • STAR-CCM+
  • COMSOL Multiphysics
  • KIVA (software)
  • RELAP5-3D
  • PowerFlow
  • FOAMpro
  • SimScale
  • Cradle SC/Tetra
  • Cradle scSTREAM
  • Cradle Heat Designer

    • References

    SU2 code Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA