Software

UTBEST (University of Texas Bays and Estuaries Simulator)
Main Developers Srinivas Chippada (Infotech Enterprises Ltd), Vadym Aizinger (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Clint Dawson(University of Texas at Austin)
Numerical Method Cell-Centered Finite Volume Method, Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method
Programming Language/Libraries Fortran 77, C
Application Shallow Water Equations for Coastal and Regional Ocean

 
UTBEST3D (University of Texas Bays and Estuaries Simulator — 3D)
Main Developers Vadym Aizinger (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Clint Dawson(University of Texas at Austin)
Numerical Method Discontinuous Galerkin Method
Programming Language/Libraries C++, MPI, OpenMP, METIS
Application Baroclinic/barotropic hydrostatic equations of coastal/regional ocean in primitive variables

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FESTUNG (Finite Element Simulation Toolbox for UNstructured Grids)
 
   
Main Developers Florian Frank (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Balthasar Reuter (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Vadym Aizinger (AWI Bremerhaven)
   
Numerical Method Discontinuous Galerkin Method
   
Programming Language/Libraries MATLAB/GNU Octave
   
Application General purpose code
   
Download Available from Github
   

 
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ICON (Icosahedral non-hydrostatic) general circulation model
Main Developers Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), German Weather Service (DWD)
Numerical Method Finite Volume Method
Programming Language/Libraries Fortran, MPI, OpenMP
Application Dynamical core for unstructured hydrostatic/non-hydrostatic model of atmosphere/ocean

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UG (Unstructured Grids)
Main Developers Goethe Center for Scientific Computing (G-CSC)
Numerical Method Geometric Multigrid Method, Finite Volume Method, Discontinuous Galerkin Method
Programming Language/Libraries C, MPI
Application Numerical solution of PDEs on unstructured meshes using multigrid methods

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