Are training sessions available ?

Training sessions organized by EDF are available through EDF's ITECH program:

  • 2 days basic training in March and November
  • 1 day advanced aspects and development in November

Other sessions may be organized by several partners, such as RENUDA (UK & Europe), Yuansuan (China). Sessions managed by STFC and sponsored by CECAM have also been organized since a few years.

Check our News page for updates.

How to cite code_saturne ?

The most general reference remains the following one:

@article{cs_ijfv_2004,
    author = {Frédéric Archambeau and Namane Méchitoua and Marc Sakiz},
    journal = {International Journal on Finite Volumes},
    title = {Code\_Saturne: a Finite Volume Code for the Computation of Turbulent Incompressible Flows},
    url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01115371/document},
    volume = {1},
    year = {2004}
}

Also check our References page for articles which may be more relevant in a given context.

Is there a Windows version?

Version 5.0 builds were available, based on the Mingw-w64 environment and compilation from Cygwin. As this version is retired, using these builds is not recommended.

More recent versions are not built in this way, as some optional prerequisites do not seem to support this platform any more so these builds will probably be discontinued in the near future, unless we receive help improving the build system for Windows, which would be welcome.

For Windows users who are somewhat familiar with the command-line, the code may also be build on the Linux subsystem for Windows, in which case the Linux installation instructions can be used, The GUI requires an X-server, which is not officially supported, but seems to work.

Is it possible to run a Euler / Euler multi-phase simulation?

code_saturne is only able to run single-phase flows simulations, with some exceptions:

  • particles tracking with a Lagrangian approach.
  • cases where the particles are handled as an Eulerian field

Two examples of the above would be different combustion models used in the code, where pulverized coal is a separate phase from air.

Also, multi-gas or multi-liquid computations may be handled, though this requires a more advanced setup (usually assigning a species field for secondary fluids mixture fraction, and defining fluid properties such as density and viscosity based on the mixture.