**Program Name:** pyKO
**Author:** Sarah T. Stewart
**Version:** 0.6.0
**License:** GNU General Public License v3.0
pyKO is a 1-D elastic-plastic, 2nd order, Lagrangian hydrocode
Based on Mark Wilkins, Computer Simulation of Dynamic Phenomena, Springer-Verlag, 1999
Adapted from John Borg's Fortran KO code v11 (https://www.eng.mu.edu/shockphysics/KO/)
Stewart, S. T. pyKO code v0.6.1, doi:10.5281/zenodo.8092348, 2023.
https://impactswiki.github.io/pyko/
KO code is available in fortran, c, python and matlab. See manual for links.
https://github.com/ImpactsWiki/pyko/issues
There is a user mailing list for KO code users (in any programming language).
To sign up, send an email to sympa@ucdavis.edu from the email address you want to subscribe
- Subject line: subscribe ko-code-users
- Body of email: leave empty
- You will receive an email providing a link to confirm your subscription
Example input files and associated Jupyter Notebooks for plotting and comparisons in the example-inputs directory.
Example tabular EOS models are in the eos directory.
v0.6.x is the first public release. The code needs user testing and development.