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.
NOTE: Alternatively reformatted versions of the Manual in HTML, PDF and EPUb may be found in
The source for this version of the manual is in the docs branch of this fork
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.
SPARTA 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@sandia.gov and magalli@sandia.gov.
The SPARTA web site at http://sparta.sandia.gov has more information about the code and its uses.
The manual may be found at https://sparta.sandia.gov/doc/Manual.html
The SPARTA distribution includes the following files and directories:
Point your browser at any of these files to get started:
| Files | |
|---|---|
| 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 (Currently not available) |