Quick Guide to SIROCCO

This guide is intended to allow users to install SIROCCO, to run SIROCCO as a computer program and then to check whether the run has completed as expected.

It does not describe (except in passing) any information about the physics of SIROCCO, the details of a particular wind model, or criteria for evaluating whether the inputs correspond to a plausible model of an astrophysical system.

• Installation – how to install SIROCCO from github and to run a model

• Creating the input file for SIROCCO – Simple instructions how to set up a model interactively

• The files produced by SIROCCO – A quick look at the output files

• Evaluation of the results – A discussion of whether a model has run as required, or not

• Plotting & Processing Outputs – Some tutorials for plotting and processing outputs with PySi and other tools.