PLUTO is a freely-distributed software for the numerical solution of mixed hyperbolic/parabolic systems of partial differential equations (conservation laws) targeting high Mach number flows in astrophysical plasma dynamics.

PLUTO also comes with a comprehensive suite of fluid-dynamical test problems targeting astrophysical flows and often using for numerical benchmarking. Documentation can be found under Doc/test_problems.html.

May 17, 2018 · The MHD–PIC model has been implemented in the PLUTO code for astrophysical plasma (Mignone et al. 2007, 2012), and it is part of a more general fluid/particle hybrid framework allowing different types of physics to be incorporated.

Jan 16, 2025 · Here, we present PyPLUTO, a Python package tailored for efficient loading, manipulation, and visualization of outputs produced with the PLUTO code (Mignone et al., 2007; Mignone et al., 2012). PyPLUTO uses memory mapping to optimize data loading and provides general routines for data manipulation and visualization.

PLUTO is Godunov-type code for astrophysical fluid dynamics supporting several modules and algorithms. This is version 4.3 (June 2018) of the code, with a few updates and bug fixes by the Black Hole Group.

May 1, 2007 · We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2, and 3 spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multiphysics, multialgorithm modular environment particularly oriented toward the treatment of astrophysical flows in presence of discontinuities.

Aug 27, 2018 · We describe a new hybrid framework to model non-thermal spectral signatures from highly energetic particles embedded in a large-scale classical or relativistic MHD flow. Our method makes use of...

We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2, and 3 spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multiphysics, multialgorithm modular environment particularly oriented toward the treatment of astrophysical flows in presence of discontinuities.

multi-frequency irradiation tool into PLUTO (Kuiper et al.2010) for massive star formation. Since the 3D-MHD code PLUTO (Mignone et al.2007) is becoming increasingly popular within the computational as-trophysics community, we added a publicly available radia-tion module, which is based on the two-temperature FLD-

In addition, MHD and relativistic MHD are evolved by selecting different strategies to enforce the divergence-free condition, including Constrained transport (CT) / hyperbolic divergence cleaning / Powell's 8 wave formulation.