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+  </a>
+  <a href="https://github.com/MFlowCode/MFC/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md">
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-Welcome to the home of MFC!
-MFC simulates compressible multi-component and multi-phase flows, [amongst other things](#what-else-can-this-thing-do). 
-MFC is written in Fortran and uses metaprogramming to keep the code short (about 20K lines).
+**Welcome!**
+MFC simulates compressible multi-phase flows, [among other things](#what-else-can-this-thing-do). 
+It uses metaprogramming to stay short and portable (~20K lines).
+MFC conducted the largest known, open CFD simulation at <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07392" target="_blank">101 trillion grid points</a> (as of July 2025).
+
+<p align="center">
+<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.07953" target="_blank">
+    <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI-10.48550/arXiv.2503.07953-thistle.svg"/>
+</a>
+<a href="https://github.com/MFlowCode/MFC/stargazers" target="_blank">
+    <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/MFlowCode/MFC?style=flat&color=maroon"/>
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+</br>
+Is MFC useful for you? Consider citing it or giving a star! 
+</p>
+
+```bibtex
+@article{Wilfong_2025,
+  author = {Wilfong, Benjamin and {Le Berre}, Henry and Radhakrishnan, Anand and Gupta, Ansh and Vaca-Revelo, Diego and Adam, Dimitrios and Yu, Haocheng and Lee, Hyeoksu and Chreim, Jose Rodolfo and {Carcana Barbosa}, Mirelys and Zhang, Yanjun and Cisneros-Garibay, Esteban and Gnanaskandan, Aswin and {Rodriguez Jr.}, Mauro and Budiardja, Reuben D. and Abbott, Stephen and Colonius, Tim and Bryngelson, Spencer H.},
+  title = {{MFC 5.0: A}n exascale many-physics flow solver},
+  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07953},
+  year = {2025},
+  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2503.07953}
+}
+```
 
 MFC is used on the latest leadership-class supercomputers.
-It scales <b>ideally to exascale</b>; [tens of thousands of GPUs on NVIDIA- and AMD-GPU machines](#is-this-really-exascale) on Oak Ridge Summit and Frontier.
+It scales <b>ideally to exascale</b>; [tens of thousands of GPUs on NVIDIA- and AMD-GPU machines](#is-this-really-exascale) on Oak Ridge Frontier, LLNL El Capitan, CSCS Alps, among others.
 MFC is a SPEChpc benchmark candidate, part of the JSC JUPITER Early Access Program, and used OLCF Frontier and LLNL El Capitan early access systems.
   
 Get in touch with <a href="mailto:shb@gatech.edu">Spencer</a> if you have questions!