FLUKA
FLUKA is a closed-source semi-integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter with limited scalability.
FLUKA has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector and telescope design, cosmic ray studies, dosimetry, medical physics, radiobiology. A recent line of development concerns hadron therapy.
FLUKA is available in the form of a pre-compiled object library for a number of computer platforms. Source code is available subject to the conditions specified in the . Alternatives to FLUKA are GEANT4, MCNP and PHITS.
FLUKA is developed using the FORTRAN language. Under Linux the g77 compiler is at present necessary to build and run user programs. A 64 bit version compiled in GNU Fortran has been available since 2011.
A graphical user interface to run FLUKA named has been developed using Python and is available at the project's web-site.
The software is sponsored and copyrighted by INFN and CERN.
Early versions of the FLUKA hadronic event generator were implemented in other codes and should be referenced as such and not as FLUKA. The hadronic FLUKA generator in GEANT3 is no more developed since 1993 and cannot be compared with the present stand-alone FLUKA.
FLUKA software code is used by Epcard, which is a software program for simulating radiation exposure on airline flights.
