This is the SPARTA software package.

SPARTA stands for Stochastic PArallel Rarefied-gas Time-accurate Analyzer.

Copyright (2014) Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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SPARTA is a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code designed to run efficiently on parallel computers. It was developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with funding from the DOE. It is an open-source code, distributed freely under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

The primary authors of the code are Steve Plimpton and Michael Gallis, who can be emailed at sjplimp@gmail.com and magalli@sandia.gov. The SPARTA web site at http://sparta.sandia.gov has more information about the code and its uses.

The SPARTA distribution includes the following files and directories:

README this file LICENSE the GNU General Public License (GPL) bench benchmark problems data files with species/reaction params, surface files doc documentation examples simple test problems lib additional library files python Python wrapper on SPARTA as a library src source files tools pre- and post-processing tools

Point your browser at any of these files to get started:

doc/Manual.html the SPARTA manual doc/Section_intro.html hi-level introduction to SPARTA doc/Section_start.html how to build and use SPARTA doc/Developer.pdf SPARTA developer guide