AstroBEAR / BearCLAW
AstroBEAR is a hydrodynamic & magnetohydrodynamic code environment designed for a variety of astrophysical applications. It uses the BEARCLAW package, a multidimensional, Eulerian AMR-capable computational code written in Fortran to solve hyperbolic systems for astrophysical applications. AstroBEAR allows simulations in 2, 2.5 (i.e., cylindrical), and 3 dimensions, in either cartesian or curvilinear coordinates.

For up to date information on AstroBEAR see the AstroBEAR Wiki

BEARCLAW is developed at the University of North Carolina by Sorin Mitran. AstroBEAR is developed at the University of Rochester by the Computational Astrophysics Group in the Department of Physics & Astronomy.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations which made the development of AstroBEAR possible.

  • The National Science Foundation
  • The US Department of Energy
  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • The Space Telescope Science Institute
  • The Spitzer Space Telescope Institute
  • University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics

PI: Adam Frank
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
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Current Developers:
Andrew Cunningham (LLNL, UR),
Kris Yirak,
Shule Li,
Brandon Shroyer,
Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback,
Erica Kaminski,
Eddie Hansen,