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Description
STARCRASH is a parallel fortran code that uses Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) techniques to calculate the 3-d evolution of self-gravitating fluid systems. The code is particularly suited to the study of binary stellar interactions, such as mergers of neutron star systems and stellar collisions. It was developed by RIT Associate Professor Joshua Faber (then at Northwestern University), Jamie Lombardi (Allegheny Collegel then Vassar College), and Fred Rasio (Northwestern). This code is freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Contributors
Joshua Faber, Zachary Silberman, Tanmayee Gupte
CCRG Contributors
Curator
Joshua Faber
Short Description
STARCRASH is a parallel fortran code that uses Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) techniques to calculate the 3-d evolution of self-gravitating fluid systems.