Project Starburst.

Starburst is an astrophysical Nbody/SPH simulation program. It is especially designed to simulate the formation of stars and of star forming galaxies.

The following physical processes are included:
  • radiative cooling of gas
  • radiative transfer
  • star formation
  • supernovae
  • black hole formation

    The following numerical features distinguish it from similar programs:
  • The simulation time steps are not global. The processors are allowed to work slightly out of sync, allowing for a better scalability.
  • The gravitational softening length of the particles change dynamically (without violating conservation of energy and momentum)
  • A new and fast method for calculating the gravity has been implemented.

    Author

    Starburst has been developed by Ingo Josopait in 2002-2005.
    This program is partly based on the program 'Gadget' by Volker Springel (http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/gadget/).
    It makes use of the gzstream class by Deepak Bandyopadhyay and Lutz Kettner (already included in this package).

    Download

    Starburst is free software. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
    The sourceforge project page is accessible here .
    You can get the source code via anonymous CVS access by executing the following commands:

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@starburst.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/starburst login
     
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@starburst.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/starburst co -P starburst