SOLAR

Code used in our papers dealing with planetary formation.

Link to the code: solar-4.1.tgz.

README file

/* Planetary system formation code developed by A. Balaz (antun [at] scl [dot] rs)

Address: Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Scientific Computing Laboratory, http://www.scl.rs/solar/

Public use and modification of this code is allowed providing the appropriate papers are properly acknowledged. The author would be grateful for all information and/or comments regarding the use of the code.
*/

ABOUT SOLAR

This is the distribution of SOLAR, v. 4.1

It is a simulation of planetary formation trough gravitational accretion. It is based on a simple interaction criterion, depending on a single parameter K. The second basic quantity is N, initial number of dust particles. Output consists of radii, masses and spins of n final particles (planets).

Distribution consists of the following files:

README.TXT	this file
main.c	main program
util.c	utilities for the main program
solar.c	accretion function
rho.c	initial mass distribution
nr_util.c	Numerical Recipes routines
Makefile	makefile
rho1.c - rho8.c	different initial mass distributions; if you want to use e.g. rho3.c instead of current rho.c, just do 'cp rho3.c rho.c' and recompile the program
rhos.txt	description of distributions rho1.c - rho8.c

The program was tested on SGI O2 and O2000 machines with native SGI's cc and Linux, kernels 2.0 - 2.6 with gcc.

INSTALLATION

1) Unpack the source:

tar -xvzf solar-4.1.tgz

or, if you get some complaints:

gunzip solar-4.1.tgz tar -xvf solar-4.1.tar

2) Go to solar-4.1 directory:

cd solar-4.1

3) Read the README.TXT file.

4) Change the Makefile to suite your needs, i.e. choose the compiler options properly.

5) Compile and install the program:

make
make install

6) If you want to change the initial mass distribution, e.g. to replace existing rho.c with rho3.c:

cp rho3.c rho.c
make clean
make
make install

USING SOLAR

On the command line type

./solar

or

./solar -h

for details.