Arepo

This guide walks you through Arepo in four progressive chapters:

1. Overview (this page)
2. Quickstart
3. Simulation Blueprint
4. Production Run

Code Profile

• Method: Moving-mesh finite-volume hydrodynamics
• Core traits: Voronoi moving mesh + gravity + (with modules) MHD/RT
• Typical usage: Cosmological galaxy-formation runs coupling gravity and hydrodynamics
• Example Workflow: wave_1d

Official Documentation & Source

• AREPO User Guide: running simulations
• AREPO User Guide: simulation examples
• AREPO Source Repository (GitLab)

Academic References (NASA ADS)

• Springel (2010), E pur si muove: Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh
• Weinberger et al. (2020), The AREPO public code release

Next Chapters

• Quickstart
• Simulation Blueprint
• Production Run