An Approach to Neutrino Radiative Transfer in Supernova Simulations
Abstract
Neutrinos dominate the energetics of core-collapse supernovae, and are believed to play an important role in driving the explosion. The development of a spatially multidimensional neutrino radiative transfer code is a key part of the Terascale Supernova Initiative, a multi-year effort aimed at understanding the supernova explosion mechanism through supercomputer simulations. I will describe the conservative formulations of general relativistic radiative transfer we have developed for this application, and the algorithm we are implementing in our parallel code.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0404401,
title = {An Approach to Neutrino Radiative Transfer in Supernova Simulations},
author = {Christian Y. Cardall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0404401},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of Numerical Methods for Multidimensional Radiative Transfer Problems (RadConf2003), Heidelberg, Germany, 24-26 September 2003, edited by R. Rannacher and R. Wehrse