Initial release | January 2012 |
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Stable release | 7.1.1 [1] / 2 March 2021 |
Repository | |
Written in | C++, Python |
Operating system | Unix/Linux/OS X/Windows |
Type | Computational fluid dynamics, Simulation software |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 |
Website | su2code |
SU2 is a suite of open-source software tools written in C++ for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDE) and performing PDE-constrained optimization. The primary applications are computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic shape optimization, [2] but has been extended to treat more general equations such as electrodynamics and chemically reacting flows. SU2 supports continuous and discrete adjoint for calculating the sensitivities/gradients of a scalar field.
SU2 is being developed by individuals and organized teams around the world. The SU2 Lead Developers are: Dr. Francisco Palacios and Dr. Thomas D. Economon.
The most active groups developing SU2 are:
The SU2 tools suite solution suite includes [3]
Branch | Version | Releasedate [6] | Improvements | |
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1.0 | 1.0 | 28 June 2013 | ||
1.1 | 28 June 2013 | |||
2.0 | 2.0 | 28 June 2013 | ||
2.0.1 | 28 June 2013 | |||
2.0.2 | 28 June 2013 | |||
2.0.3 | 28 June 2013 | |||
2.0.4 | 28 June 2013 | |||
2.0.5 | 28 June 2013 | |||
2.0.6 | 12 August 2013 | |||
2.0.7 | 11 September 2013 | |||
2.0.8 | 30 September 2013 | |||
2.0.10 | 11 September 2013 | |||
3.0 "eagle" | 3.0.0 | 15 January 2014 |
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3.1 "eagle" | 3.1.0 | 14 August 2014 | ||
3.2 "eagle" | 3.2.0 | 14 August 2014 |
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3.2.1 | 8 September 2014 |
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3.2.2 | 28 September 2014 |
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3.2.3 | 22 October 2014 |
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3.2.4 | 9 November 2014 | |||
3.2.5 | 4 December 2014 | |||
3.2.7 | 27 December 2014 |
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3.2.8 | 3 February 2015 | |||
3.2.9 | 4 March 2015 | |||
4.0 "Cardinal" | 4.0.0 | 23 June 2015 | New Features:
Performance Improvements:
Additional Updates:
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4.0.1 | 1 September 2015 |
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4.0.2 | 3 November 2015 | |||
4.1 "Cardinal" | 4.1.0 | 22 April 2016 |
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4.1.1 | 5 April 2016 | |||
4.1.2 | 22 April 2016 | |||
4.1.3 | 24 May 2016 | |||
4.2 "Cardinal" | 4.2.0 | 15 June 2016 |
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4.3 "Cardinal" | 4.3.0 | 22 August 2016 |
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5.0 "Raven" | 5.0.0 | 20 January 2017 |
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6.0 "Falcon" | 6.0.0 | 14 February 2018 | ||
7.0 "Blackbird" | 7.0.0 | 29 November 2019 | actual 7.1.1 (2021-03-02) | |
Legend: Old version Older version, still maintained Latest version Latest preview version |
SU2 is free and open source software, released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (SU2 v1.0 and v2.0) and GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (SU2 v2.0.7 and later versions). [7]
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