This project is a multi-particle code for non-continuum gas dynamics simulations.

• A user-input number of particles are initialized in a cube. They have elastic collisions with other particles, and wall interactions that follow knudsen's cosine law for thermal effects.

• Can produce visualizations (using the GLUT library for OpenGL) and data for analysis. (data includes mean free path, velocities, particles positions, etc.)

• There is a serial version of the code for single processor machines (serial branch), and a parallel version that uses Nvidia's CUDA platform (master branch).

• C++ compiler that supports c++11 libraries (specifically random number generation)

• Cuda-enabled device (for parallel code, not required for serial)

• Required files:

  • main.cu (main code)

  • input_file (options for customizing each simulation)

• Command line arguments:

#!bash
    > make
    > ./a.out file