PFLOTRAN
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Plans and prices
From PFLOTRAN's own pricing page, checked 14 Nov 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| PFLOTRAN | Free | Open-source software; GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later · No charge stated |
The facts
Each one read from PFLOTRAN's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Capabilities
- Listed capabilities include Richards equation, thermo-hydro-chemical modeling, multiphase water-supercritical CO2, and surface flow.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Compute targets
- It is designed for massively parallel computing architectures, workstations and laptops.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Geochemistry
- Listed chemistry capabilities include aqueous complexation, sorption, and mineral precipitation and dissolution.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Grid and simulation features
- It lists structured and unstructured grids, multiple realizations, multiple inputs and parallel I/O.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Installation support
- The site directs installation questions not answered in its installation tab and bug reports to the pflotran-dev Google Group.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Parallelization
- Parallelization uses domain decomposition and PETSc libraries.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Parallel performance
- The performance page reports a run on more than 260,000 cores and a domain exceeding 3.34 billion degrees of freedom, without HDF5 output.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- PFLOTRAN models multiphase, multicomponent and multiscale reactive flow and transport in porous materials.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Reactive transport methods
- Reactive transport equations can be solved with fully implicit Newton-Raphson or operator splitting.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Under development
- The site lists Community Land Model coupling, surface-subsurface flow coupling, geomechanics, and multiple continuum reactive transport as under development.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Usage support
- The site directs questions about running PFLOTRAN to the pflotran-users Google Group.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Visualization documentation
- The user guide lists Tecplot, VisIt, Gnuplot and MatPlotLib under visualization.checked 14 Nov 2026