Chombo-Discharge
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Chombo-Discharge, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Chombo-Discharge's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Freely obtainable research code; requires LAPACK and BLAS |
The facts
Each one read from Chombo-Discharge's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 3D visuals
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Adaptive grids
- It uses Cartesian embedded-boundary grids and patch-based adaptive mesh refinement.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Assessment tools
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Authoring tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Development history
- The project was originally developed at SINTEF Energy Research between 2015 and 2018, with further development starting in 2021.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The documentation describes it as an evolving research code and says users should be willing to understand how it operates and learn Chombo basics.checked 5 Oct 2026
- I/O and restart
- It supports parallel HDF5 I/O and checkpoint-restart for both fluid and particles.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Notable limit
- The code supports only global time-step methods and does not support time subcycling.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Parallel computing
- It supports OpenMP, MPI, or MPI combined with OpenMP, and can individually load-balance particle and fluid work.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Physics capabilities
- Its features include advection-diffusion-reaction processes, electrostatics, radiative transport, particle-mesh operations, and multiphysics interfaces.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Chombo-Discharge is a modular research code for two- and three-dimensional simulations of low-temperature plasmas in complex geometries.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Python setup tools
- Python tools accompanying physics modules can help users set up applications.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The installation guide invites users to contact the project on GitHub about installation issues.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Visualization integration
- VisIt is listed as an optional package for visualization and analysis.checked 5 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Build platform
- The installation guide provides a quick-start build for a Linux workstation.checked 5 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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