The Pencil Code
a high-order finite-difference code for compressible MHD
News archive
- 18 March 2022:
The next Pencil Code User Meeting will be via zoom hosted by IIA - 18 March 2022:
The minutes of the Pencil Code Steering Committee (PCSC) are posted on: http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/pencil-code/PCSC/ - 3 April 2021:
The next Pencil Code User Meeting will be via zoom hosted by EPFL - 3 December 2020:
For detailed news, see the Pencil Code Newsletter - 3 December 2020:
The minutes of the Pencil Code Steering Committee (PCSC) are posted on: http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/pencil-code/PCSC/ - 02 May 2019:
The next Pencil Code User Meeting 2019 will be in Espoo, August 12-16. - 11 April 2018:
The minutes of the Pencil Code Steering Committee (PCSC) are posted on: http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/pencil-code/PCSC/ - 11 April 2018:
The next Pencil Code User Meeting 2018 will be in Boulder, June 11-15. - 17 Dec 2016:
The Doodle for Pencil Code User Meeting 2017 is out: http://doodle.com/poll/ci7d8bhdb4yxcxr5 - 13 Mar 2016:
The 12th Pencil Code Meeting will take place 8-12 Aug 2016 in Graz/Austria. Don't forget to sign up. - 19 April 2015:
Pencil Code moved from Google Code to Github.
We proudly announce the successful move to http://github.com/pencil-code/ and thank Toby (aka tobson) for doing a splendid job! The move became neccessary after Google announced to close Google Code. Commands to download the code with git or svn are given on the download page. - 24 Dec 2014:
The 11th Pencil Code Meeting will take place 11-15 May 2015 in Trondheim. Don't forget to sign up. - 25 Jan 2014:
The 10th Pencil Code Meeting took place on 7-11 July 2014 in Göttingen. - 20 Jun 2013:
Welcome to the new Pencil Code homepage, designed and implemented during the 9th Pencil Code User Meeting on 17-20 June 2013 in Lund. - 21 Sep 2008:
The code was moved to a Google Code repository. - 28 July 2006:
All features of the eos branch have been incorporated into the main trunk. There are some minor changes that will be necessary in the .in-files, such as adding eos_init_pars (possibly with gamma=1.) and viscosity_run_pars (with the value of nu).