Are training sessions available ?

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

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

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?

There is currently no native Windows binary distribution, but code_saturne is known to work well on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), in which case the Linux installation instructions can be used, The GUI requires an X-server, at least on WSL 1, 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.