TY - GEN
T1 - The impact of community software in astrophysics
AU - Dubey, A.
AU - Turk, M. J.
AU - O'Shea, B. W.
PY - 2014/7/1
Y1 - 2014/7/1
N2 - Advances in mathematical models and numerical algorithms combined with increasing reliance on simulations for understanding multi-physics and multi-scale phenomena has made the task of software development for simulations a large and complex enterprise. Development and adoption of community codes is one way to address this challenge. The astrophysics community has been ahead of many other science communities in making research codes publicly available, and therefore in the development and adoption of community codes. ZEUS-2D was one of the earliest codes to become public, and it has been followed by several others. In this paper, we highlight the impact of three of these packages - FLASH, Enzo and yt - on the astrophysics community. These, and similar projects in other fields, show that if reliable and robust codes exist, and efforts are made to promote their use, they facilitate higher overall scientific output. They also help foster open science in their corresponding communities, which has wide-ranging benefits.
AB - Advances in mathematical models and numerical algorithms combined with increasing reliance on simulations for understanding multi-physics and multi-scale phenomena has made the task of software development for simulations a large and complex enterprise. Development and adoption of community codes is one way to address this challenge. The astrophysics community has been ahead of many other science communities in making research codes publicly available, and therefore in the development and adoption of community codes. ZEUS-2D was one of the earliest codes to become public, and it has been followed by several others. In this paper, we highlight the impact of three of these packages - FLASH, Enzo and yt - on the astrophysics community. These, and similar projects in other fields, show that if reliable and robust codes exist, and efforts are made to promote their use, they facilitate higher overall scientific output. They also help foster open science in their corresponding communities, which has wide-ranging benefits.
KW - Community astrophysics codes
KW - Impact on communities
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84923963456
T3 - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014
SP - 1813
EP - 1820
BT - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014
A2 - Onate, Eugenio
A2 - Oliver, Xavier
A2 - Huerta, Antonio
PB - International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
T2 - Joint 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, the 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and the 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014
Y2 - 20 July 2014 through 25 July 2014
ER -