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We compute realistic 3D radiative MHD near-surface models of starspots with substantial penumbrae on cool main-sequence stars using the MURaM simulation code. This work is an improvement on the the previous starspot models in a slab…

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We present a new special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) code capable of handling coexisting ultra-relativistically hot and non-relativistically cold gases. We achieve this by designing a new algorithm for conversion between primitive and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Po-Hsun Tseng , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh

We present a formalism well adapted to the numerical study of the encounter of an ordinary main sequence star with a massive black hole. Symmetry considerations, the use of a well adapted moving grid and a well adapted moving frame along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. A. Marck , A. Lioure , S. Bonazzola

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

This paper examines the application of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) in the field of numerical weather prediction (NWP). We implement and assess two distinct AMR approaches and evaluate their performance through standard NWP benchmarks. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Daniel S. Abdi , Ann Almgren , Francis X. Giraldo , Isidora Jankov

We describe recent work focused towards a better understanding of red supergiant stars using 3D radiative-hydrodynamics (RHD) simulations with CO5BOLD. A small number of simulations now exist that span up to seven years of stellar time, at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 B. Plez , A. Chiavassa

This review is a short introduction to numerical hydrodynamics in a cosmological context, intended for the non specialist. The main processes relevant to galaxy formation are first presented. The fluid equations are then introduced, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Tormen

Large-scale stellar surveys, such as SDSS-V, 4MOST, WEAVE, and PLATO, require accurate atmospheric models and synthetic spectra of stars for accurate analyses of fundamental stellar parameters and chemical abundances. The primary goal of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 Philipp Eitner , Maria Bergemann , Richard Hoppe , Åke Nordlund , Bertrand Plez , Jonas Klevas

The dynamics and thermal structure of the surface layers of stars with outer convection zones can be studied in some detail by means of numerical simulations of time-dependent compressible convection. In an effort to investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steffen

We perform adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) cosmological zoom simulations of a region around a forming galaxy cluster, comparing the ability of the methods to handle successively more complex baryonic…

The understanding and modeling of the structure and evolution of stars is based on statistical physics as well as on hydrodynamics. Today, a precise identification and proper description of the physical processes at work in stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Y. Lebreton

We present the first hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the new moving mesh code AREPO and compare the results with GADGET simulations based on a traditional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We present a new three-dimensional radiative transfer (RT) code, RADAMESH, based on a ray-tracing, photon-conserving and adaptive (in space and time) scheme. RADAMESH uses a novel Monte Carlo approach to sample the radiation field within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sebastiano Cantalupo , Cristiano Porciani

Recently 3D hydrodynamical simulations of stellar surface convection have become feasible thanks to advances in computer technology and efficient numerical algorithms. Available observational diagnostics indicate that these models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Asplund , Remo Collet

The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation process in molecular clouds. For this reason, modern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Maya A. Petkova , Bert Vandenbroucke , Ian A. Bonnell , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We study star formation variability, or burstiness, as a method to constrain and compare different galaxy formation models at high redshift using the Azahar simulation suite. The models range from magneto-hydrodynamics with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Tibor Dome , Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Sandro Tacchella , Yuxuan Yuan , Debora Sijacki

We perform a comparison between two radiative transfer algorithms commonly employed in hydrodynamical calculations of star formation: grey flux limited diffusion and the hybrid scheme, in addition we compare these algorithms to results from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 James E. Owen , Barbara Ercolano , Cathie J. Clarke

We consider models of relativistic matter containing sharp interfaces across which the matter model changes. These models will be relevant for neutron stars with crusts, phase transitions, or for viscous boundaries where the length scale is…

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Radiation feedback from stellar clusters is expected to play a key role in setting the rate and efficiency of star formation in giant molecular clouds (GMCs). To investigate how radiation forces influence realistic turbulent systems, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Sudhir Raskutti , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an important source of feedback in a variety of astrophysical contexts. Magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations treating CRs as a fluid have shown that how their feedback operates is strongly dependent on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-25 Joki Rosdahl , Yohan Dubois , Benoit Commercon , Nimatou Diallo , Nai Chieh Lin , Alexandre Marcowith