The Clawpack 5.x software
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Distributed and Parallel Computing, Scientific Computing and Simulation
- Keywords
- partial differential equations, finite volume methods, parallel computing, open source software, conservation laws, balance laws
- Copyright
- © 2016 Mandli et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. The Clawpack 5.x software. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1829v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1829v1
Abstract
Clawpack is a software package designed to solve nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential 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.
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This article has been submitted for review to PeerJ Computer Science.