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We have developed a new, very efficient numerical scheme to solve the CR diffusion convection equation that can be applied to the study of the nonlinear time evolution of CR modified shocks for arbitrary spatial diffusion properties. The…

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Simple modifications for higher-order Godunov-type difference schemes are presented which allow for accurate advection of multi-fluid flows in hydrodynamic simulations. The constraint that the sum of all mass fractions has to be equal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tomasz Plewa , Ewald Mueller

Spectra of late-type stars are usually analyzed with static model atmospheres in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) and a homogeneous plane-parallel or spherically symmetric geometry. The energy balance requires particular attention, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Carlos Allende Prieto , Paul S. Barklem , Martin Asplund , Basilio Ruiz Cobo

We update the capabilities of the software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) and enhance its ease of use and availability. Our new approach to locating convective boundaries is consistent with the physics of…

We present the first hydrodynamic, multi-dimensional simulations of He-shell flash convection. Specifically, we investigate the properties of shell convection at a time immediately before the He- luminosity peak during the 15th thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Falk Herwig , Bernd Freytag , Robert M. Hueckstaedt , Francis X. Timmes

We test a new "hybrid" scheme for simulating dynamical fluid flows in which cylindrical components of the momentum are advected across a rotating Cartesian coordinate mesh. This hybrid scheme allows us to conserve angular momentum to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zachary D. Byerly , Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach , Joel E. Tohline , Dominic C. Marcello

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses…

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Computations have helped elucidate the dynamics of Earth's mantle for several decades already. The numerical methods that underlie these simulations have greatly evolved within this time span, and today include dynamically changing and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Timo Heister , Juliane Dannberg , Rene Gassmöller , Wolfgang Bangerth

Recent three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamics simulations of protoplanetary disks report disparate disk behaviors, and these differences involve the importance of convection to disk cooling, the dependence of disk cooling on metallicity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Aaron C. Boley , Richard H. Durisen , Aake Nordlund , Jesse Lord

We perform a calibration of the mixing length of convection in stellar structure models against realistic 3D radiation-coupled hydrodynamics (RHD) simulations of convection in stellar surface layers, determining the adiabat deep in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Regner Trampedach , Robert F. Stein , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Åke Nordlund , Martin Asplund

We discuss steady-state transonic outflows obtained by direct numerical solution of the hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations. We make use of the Versatile Advection Code, a software package for solving systems of (hyperbolic)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

Cosmological simulations still lack numerical resolution or physical processes to simulate dwarf galaxies in sufficient details. Accurate numerical simulations of individual dwarf galaxies are thus still in demand. We aim at (i) studying in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-20 Eduard I. Vorobyov , Simone Recchi , Gerhard Hensler

We investigate simulated turbulent flow within thermally driven stellar convection zones. Different driving sources are studied, including cooling at the top of the convectively unstable region, as occurs in surface convection zones; and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Casey Meakin , David Arnett

This paper reports an application of gas-kinetic BGK scheme to the computation of turbulent compressible convection in the stellar interior. After incorporating the Sub-grid Scale (SGS) turbulence model into the BGK scheme, we tested the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-07 Chun-Lin Tian , Li-Cai Deng , Kwing-Lam Chan , Da-Run Xiong

We design and analyse an energy stable, structure preserving and well-balanced scheme for the Ripa system of shallow water equations. The energy stability of the numerical solutions is achieved by introducing appropriate stabilisation terms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 K. R. Arun , Rahuldev Ghorai

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a numerical scheme for the coagulation and fragmentation equation with diffusion in space. A finite volume scheme is developed, based on a conservative formulation of the space nonhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Francis Filbet

This article presents a new finite element method for convection-diffusion equations by enhancing the continuous finite element space with a flux space for flux approximations that preserve the important mass conservation locally on each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang , Qingsong Zou

This article introduces a novel numerical approach, based on Finite Volume Techniques, for studying fully nonlinear coagulation-fragmentation models, where both the coagulation and fragmentation components of the collision operator are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Arijit Das , Minh-Binh Tran

We present the Stagger-grid, a comprehensive grid of time-dependent, 3D hydrodynamic model atmospheres for late-type stars with realistic treatment of radiative transfer, covering a wide range in stellar parameters. This grid of 3D models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Z. Magic , R. Collet , M. Asplund , R. Trampedach , W. Hayek , A. Chiavassa , R. F. Stein , Å. Nordlund

We analyse cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters to study the X-ray scaling relations between total masses and observable quantities such as X-ray luminosity, gas mass, X-ray temperature, and $Y_{X}$. Three sets of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-26 N. Truong , E. Rasia , P. Mazzotta , S. Planelles , V. Biffi , D. Fabjan , A. M. Beck , S. Borgani , K. Dolag , M. Gaspari , G. L. Granato , G. Murante , C. Ragone-Figueroa , L. K. Steinborn