MLegS: Modernized and Parallelized Mapped Legendre Spectral Method Code

MLegS (Mapped Legendre Spectral Method Code) is a code package based on a modernized and parallelized spectral method for numerical simulations in a radially unbounded domain.

Based on the numerical algorithm proposed by T. Matsushima and P. S. Marcus (1997)1, MLegS incorporates scalable multiprocessing interfaces for high-performance computing. MLegS is written in Modern Fortran; the code package is open-source under a BSD license.

Prior to its open-source release, MLegS was successfully used in several vortex dynamics studies in the context of wake vortices in the atmosphere. One example is S. Lee and P. S. Marcus (2023)2, where one can find the detailed mathematical formulation of the mapped Legendre (pseudo-)spectral method.

Contributors

  1. Matsushima, T., & Marcus, P. S. (1997). A spectral method for unbounded domains. Journal of Computational Physics, 137(2), 321–345. https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1997.5804 ↩

  2. Lee, S., & Marcus, P. S. (2023). Linear stability analysis of wake vortices by a spectral method using mapped Legendre functions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 967, A2. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.455 ↩

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