Clawpack: Building an open source ecosystem for solving hyperbolic PDEs

Kyle T. Mandli; Aron J. Ahmadia; Marsha Berger; Donna Calhoun; David L. George; Yiannis Hadjimichael; David I. Ketcheson; Grady I. Lemoine; Randall J. LeVeque

doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.68

Clawpack: Building an open source ecosystem for solving hyperbolic PDEs

Kyle T. Mandli, Aron J. Ahmadia, Marsha Berger, Donna Calhoun, David L. George, Yiannis Hadjimichael, David I. Ketcheson, Grady I. Lemoine, Randall J. LeVeque

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Clawpack is a software package designed to solve nonlinear hyperbolic partial dif- ferential equations using high-resolution finite volume methods based on Riemann solvers and limiters. The package includes a number of variants aimed at different applications and user communities. Clawpack has been actively developed as an open source project for over 20 years. The latest major release, Clawpack 5, introduces a number of new features and changes to the code base and a new development model based on GitHub and Git submodules. This article provides a summary of the most significant changes, the rationale behind some of these changes, and a description of our current development model.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e68
Journal	PeerJ Computer Science
Volume	2016
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.68
State	Published - 2016

Keywords

Balance laws
Conservation laws
Finite volume methods
Open source software
Parallel computing
Partial differential equations

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General Computer Science

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