Pluto swMATH ID: 9092 Software Authors: Mignone, A.; Bodo, G.; Massaglia, S.; Matsakos, T.; Tesileanu, O.; Zanni, C.; Ferrari, A. Description: PLUTO is a freely-distributed software for the numerical solution of mixed hyperbolic/parabolic systems of partial differential equations (conservation laws) targeting high Mach number flows in astrophysical fluid dynamics. The code is designed with a modular and flexible structure whereby different numerical algorithms can be separately combined to solve systems of conservation laws using the finite volume or finite difference approach based on Godunov-type schemes. Equations are discretized and solved on a structured mesh that can be either static or adaptive. For the latter functionality, PLUTO relies on the Chombo library which provides a distributed infrastructure for parallel calculations over block-structured, adaptively refined grids. The static grid version of PLUTO is entirely written in the C programming language while the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) interface requires also C++ and Fortran. PLUTO is a highly portable software and can run from a single workstation up to several thousands processors using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) to achieve highly scalable parallel performance. The software is developed at the Dipartimento di Fisica, Torino University in a joint collaboration with INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino and the SCAI Department of CINECA. Homepage: http://plutocode.ph.unito.it/ Related Software: Athena; HLLE; RAMSES; NIRVANA; FLASH; ENZO; HE-E1GODF; RAM; ECHO; PARAMESH; HARM; CASTRO; CRASH; CANS+; AUSM; AstroPhi; FISH; gooPhi; CHARM++; Einstein Toolkit Cited in: 33 Publications all top 5 Cited by 78 Authors 4 Keppens, Rony 4 Mignone, Andrea 4 Tang, Huazhong 3 Duan, Junming 3 Kulikov, Igor M. 3 Mishra, Siddhartha 3 Zanni, Claudio 2 Chernykh, I. G. 2 Ferreira, Jonathan 2 Fuchs, Franz Georg 2 Iovieno, Michele 2 Kitamura, Keiichi 2 Massaglia, Silvano 2 Meliani, Zakaria 2 Risebro, Nils Henrik 2 Tordella, Daniela 2 Tutukov, Alexander V. 2 Tzeferacos, Petros 2 van der Holst, Bart 2 Waagan, Knut 1 Bessolaz, N. 1 Beuther, H. 1 Bodo, Gianluigi 1 Bohn, Andy 1 Chen, Yuxi 1 Chernykh, Igor 1 Delmont, P. 1 Deppe, Nils 1 Diener, Peter 1 Faller, Hugues 1 Federrath, Christoph 1 Ferrer, Esteban 1 Field, Scott E. 1 Flaig, M. 1 Foucart, François 1 Fujimoto, Takeshi R. 1 Glinsky, Boris M. 1 Gombosi, Tamas I. 1 He, Peng 1 Hébert, François 1 Heidt, Liam 1 Henning, Th. 1 Kawasaki, Taro 1 Kidder, Lawrence E. 1 Klahr, H. 1 Klingenberg, Christian 1 Kopriva, David Alan 1 Lee, Dongwook 1 Li, Shangting 1 Lippuner, Jonas 1 Mamashita, Tomohiro 1 McMurry, Andrew D. 1 Miller, Jonah M. 1 Minoshima, Takashi 1 Miyoshi, Takahiro 1 Mocz, Philip 1 Murawski, Krzysztof 1 Musielak, Zdzislaw E. 1 O’Sullivan, Conall 1 O’Sullivan, Stephen 1 Ott, Christian D. 1 Porth, Oliver 1 Protasov, V. A. 1 Reyes, Adam 1 Rubio, Gonzalo 1 Rueda-Ramírez, Andrés Mauricio 1 Ryu, Dongsu 1 Scheel, Mark A. 1 Schnetter, Erik 1 Tadmor, Eitan 1 Teukolsky, Saul A. 1 Teunissen, Jannis 1 Valero, Eusebio 1 van Marle, Allard Jan 1 Vincent, Trevor 1 Vlasis, A. 1 Wołoszkiewicz, Piotr 1 Xia, Chun all top 5 Cited in 11 Serials 15 Journal of Computational Physics 3 Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 Computers and Fluids 3 Computer Physics Communications 2 Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics 1 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 1 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 1 Control and Cybernetics 1 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 1 Quantitative Finance 1 European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM): Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis all top 5 Cited in 10 Fields 27 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 19 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 10 Astronomy and astrophysics (85-XX) 3 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 2 Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX) 1 Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory (15-XX) 1 Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer (80-XX) 1 Quantum theory (81-XX) 1 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) 1 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) Citations by Year