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This paper presents results from axisymmetric simulations of magneto-rotational stellar core collapse to neutron stars in general relativity using the passive field approximation for the magnetic field. These simulations are performed using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font , H. Dimmelmeier

We present Superbox, a particle-mesh code with high resolution sub-grids and an NGP (nearest grid point) force-calculation scheme based on the second derivatives of the potential. Superbox implements a fast low-storage FFT-algorithm, giving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Fellhauer , P. Kroupa , H. Baumgart , R. Bien , C. M. Boily , R. Spurzem , N. Wassmer

We present describe a new computer code that solves the radiative transfer problem on multi-resolution grids. If the cloud model is from an MHD simulation on a regular cartesian grid, criteria based for example on local density or velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela , P. Padoan

This paper explores the effects of numerical algorithms on global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of solar wind (SW) in the inner heliosphere. To do so, we use sunRunner3D, a 3-D MHD model that employs the boundary conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Luis Ángel de León Alanís , J. J. González-Avilés , P. Riley , M. Ben-Nun

Main sequence, solar-like stars (M < 1.5 Msun) have outer convective envelopes that are sufficiently thick to affect significantly their overall structure. The radii of these stars, in particular, are sensitive to the details of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 F. Spada , P. Demarque , S. Basu , J. D. Tanner

We present the results of 3--D nonlinear simulations of magnetic dynamo action by core convection within A-type stars of 2 solar masses, at a range of rotation rates. We consider the inner 30% by radius of such stars, with the spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

We present the results of global 3-D MHD simulations of stratified and turbulent protoplanetary disc models. The aim of this work is to develop thin disc models capable of sustaining turbulence for long run times, which can be used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sebastien Fromang , Richard P. Nelson

Numerical simulations of the 3D MHD-equations that describe rotating magnetoconvection in a Cartesian box have been performed using the code NIRVANA. The characteristics of averaged quantities like the turbulence intensity and the turbulent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Giesecke

We report the first three-dimensional radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations of protostellar collapse with and without Ohmic dissipation.We take into account many physical processes required to study star formation processes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Kengo Tomida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Yasunori Hori , Satoshi Okuzumi , Masahiro N. Machida , Kazuya Saigo

Broadening and asymmetry of spectral lines in slowly rotating late A-type stars provide evidence for high-amplitude convective motions. The properties of turbulence observed in the A-star atmospheres are not understood theoretically and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Kochukhov , B. Freytag , N. Piskunov , M. Steffen

We adopted an unstructured hydrodynamical solver CharLES to the problem of global convection in the Sun. With the aim to investigate the properties of solar turbulent convection and reproduce differential rotation pattern. We performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Chunlei Liang , Frank Ham

We present a new general relativistic hydrodynamics code specifically designed to study magneto-rotational, relativistic, stellar core collapse. The code is an extension of an existing (and thoroughly tested) hydrodynamics code, which has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font

(Abridged) We report results of three dimensional MHD simulations of global accretion disks threaded with weak vertical magnetic fields. We perform the simulations in the spherical coordinates with different temperature profiles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

It is well-known that the cores of massive stars sustain a stellar dynamo with a complex magnetic field configuration. However, the same cannot be said for the field's strength and geometry at the convective-radiative boundary, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Rathish P. Ratnasingam , Philipp V. F. Edelmann , Dominic M. Bowman , Tamara M. Rogers

Aims. A realistic model of magnetic linkage between a central object and its accretion disk is a prerequisite for understanding the spin history of stars and stellar remnants. To this end, we aim to provide an analytic model in agreement…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Miljenko Čemeljić , Włodek Kluźniak , Varadarajan Parthasarathy

Data-driven simulation is becoming an important approach for realistically characterizing the configuration and evolution of solar active regions, revealing the onset mechanism of solar eruption events and hopefully achieving the goal of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Xinyi Wang , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

Evolved stars are among the largest and brightest stars and they are ideal targets for the new generation of sensitive, high resolution instrumentation that pro- vides spectrophotometric, interferometric, astrometric, and imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 A. Chiavassa , B. Freytag

System-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves within Earth's magnetosphere are often understood theoretically using box models. While these have been highly instructive in understanding many fundamental features of the various wave modes…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 M. O. Archer , D. J. Southwood , M. D. Hartinger , L. Rastaetter , A. N. Wright

We have extended the ANTARES code to simulate the coupling of pulsation with convection in Cepheid-like variables in an increasingly realistic way, in particular in multidimensions, 2D at this stage. Present days models of radially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 Eva Mundprecht , Herbert J. Muthsam , Friedrich Kupka

We present an analysis of the response of a radiative region to waves generated by a convective region of the star; this wave treatment of the classical problem of ``overshooting'' gives extra mixing relative to the treatment traditionally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick A. Young , Karen A. Knierman , Jane R. Rigby , David Arnett