Citation

If you use Quokka or numerical methods originally implemented for Quokka in your research, please cite (Wibking & Krumholz, 2022).

@ARTICLE{2022MNRAS.512.1430W,
    author = {{Wibking}, Benjamin D. and {Krumholz}, Mark R.},
    title = "{QUOKKA: a code for two-moment AMR radiation hydrodynamics on GPUs}",
    journal = {\mnras},
    keywords = {hydrodynamics, methods: numerical, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
    year = 2022,
    month = may,
    volume = {512},
    number = {1},
    pages = {1430-1449},
    doi = {10.1093/mnras/stac439},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2110.01792},
    primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
    adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.512.1430W},
    adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

What to cite

Please also cite the module- or method-specific papers that apply to your work.

• Core Quokka hydro / AMR code: (Wibking & Krumholz, 2022)
• Radiation-hydrodynamics time integration: (He et al., 2024)
• Multigroup radiation-hydrodynamics: (He et al., 2024)
• Particle-mesh interactions: (He et al., 2026)

The following modules are currently marked as beta for science-use maturity in Quokka documentation: MHD, radiation, dust, particles, chemistry, and self-gravity. For beta capabilities, cite the relevant methods papers above when they exist, and report the exact Quokka version or commit hash used in your study.

Published scientific applications with Quokka

• Galactic outflows: (Vijayan et al., 2024), (Huang et al., 2025), (Vijayan et al., 2025)