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C F D W A R P
CFD Code for Plasma & Reactive Flow
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CFDWARP is a 100,000+ line C code that is specifically tailored to simulate efficiently plasma
and reactive flows occurring in aerodynamics, combustion, hypersonics, re-entry, lightning,
and fuel reforming. CFDWARP is a high-order compressible flow solver that uses
state-of-the-art flux discretization schemes suitable for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes
(RANS) and Implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES). CFDWARP is superior to other non-neutral
plasma codes in two ways:
(a) CFDWARP is the first CFD code that integrates the electron and ion equations along with
the bulk flow equations using aerodynamic-scale (i.e. microsecond and higher) integration
steplengths, permitting the simulation of non-neutral plasmas in about the same amount of
computing effort as non-ionized reactive flows (see https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J054624).
(b) CFDWARP is the first implicit solver for gas dynamics that preserves the positivity of
the partial densities and of the pressure, permitting the integration of chemically-
reacting flows in which a vacuum form such as blast waves or lightning (see
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.01.046)
Please read the file CONTRIB for the list of the CFDWARP contributors.
Please read the file COMPILE for compilation instructions on a UNIX machine.
Please read the file USAGE for instructions on how to operate the CFDWARP code.