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We present the first three-dimensional (3D) simulations of the large-scale mixing that takes place in the shock-heated stellar layers ejected in the explosion of a 15.5 solar-mass blue supergiant star. The outgoing supernova shock is…

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We follow up on our systematic study of axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary nebula. The aim of this work is to generate the atomic analogues of the $\mathrm H_2$ near-infrared models of Paper I with the ZEUS code…

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Extending our recent studies of two-dimensional stellar convection to 3D, we compare three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to identically set-up two-dimensional simulations, for a realistic pre-main sequence star. We compare…

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Because Cepheid variable stars have long been used as a cosmic benchmark, the accuracy of stellar evolution models for Cepheids have wide-reaching effects. Our goal is to provide a detailed multi-dimensional picture of hydrodynamic…

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Numerical studies of core-collapse supernovae have demonstrated the importance of non-radial motions in pre-collapse progenitors on the explosion outcome. We use the CHIMERA neutrino radiation hydrodynamics code running seven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Chien-Hui Chen , Eric J. Lentz , W. Raphael Hix , J. Austin Harris , Chloe Keeling Sandoval , Stephen W. Bruenn

We present the first 3-dimensional, fully compressible gas-dynamics simulations in $4\pi$ geometry of He-shell flash convection with proton-rich fuel entrainment at the upper boundary. This work is motivated by the insufficiently understood…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-26 Paul R. Woodward , Falk Herwig , Pei-Hung Lin

The explosion outcome and diagnostics of core-collapse supernovae depend sensitively on the nature of the stellar progenitor, but most studies to date have focused exclusively on one-dimensional, spherically-symmetric massive star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-14 David Vartanyan , Matthew S. B. Coleman , Adam Burrows

We couple two-dimensional hydrodynamics to detailed one-dimensional multigroup flux-limited diffusion neutrino transport to investigate prompt convection in core collapse supernovae. Our initial conditions, time-dependent boundary…

After briefly describing the anelastic approximation and Glatzmaier's code, we present results from our preliminary studies of core convection during the hydrogen burning phase of a 15 solar mass star, as well as our most recent results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Kuhlen , Stan E. Woosley , Gary A. Glatzmaier

The results of recent multi-dimensional simulations of type-II supernovae are reviewed. They show that convective instabilities in the collapsed stellar core might play an important role already during the first second after the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -Thomas Janka

In the classical picture, electron-capture supernovae and the accretion-induced collapse of oxygen-neon white dwarfs (ONeWDs) undergo an oxygen deflagration phase before gravitational collapse produces a neutron star (NS). These types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Samuel Jones , Friedrich K. Roepke , Ruediger Pakmor , Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Philipp V. F. Edelmann

Supernova models with a full spectral treatment of the neutrino transport are presented, employing the Prometheus/Vertex neutrino-hydrodynamics code with a ``ray-by-ray plus'' approximation for treating two- (or three-) dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Buras , M. Rampp , H. -Th. Janka , K. Kifonidis

We present the first two-dimensional general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse and explosion with the CoCoNuT hydrodynamics code in combination with the VERTEX solver for energy-dependent, three-flavor neutrino…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Mueller , H. -Th. Janka , A. Marek

Condensable species are crucial in shaping planetary climate. A wide range of planetary climate systems involve understanding non-dilute condensable substances and their influence on climate dynamics. There has been progress on large-scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Xianyu Tan , Maxence Lefevre , Raymond Pierrehumbert

We examine a penetration layer formed between a central radiative zone and a large convection zone in the deep interior of a young low-mass star. Using the Multidimensional Stellar Implicit Code (MUSIC) to simulate two-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , T. Goffrey , T. Constantino , M. Viallet , M. V. Popov , R. Walder , D. Folini

A high-pressure hydrogen micromix combustor has been investigated using direct numerical simulation with detailed chemistry to examine the flame structure and stabilisation mechanism. The configuration of the combustor was based on the…

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

When collapse of the iron core in a massive red or yellow supergiant does not lead to an energetic supernova, a significant fraction of the convective hydrogen envelope will fall in towards the black hole formed from the collapsing core.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Andrea Antoni , Eliot Quataert

We perform the first detailed three-dimensional simulation of low Mach number convection preceding thermonuclear ignition in a mixed H/He X-ray burst. Our simulations include a moderate-sized, approximate network that captures hydrogen and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-01 M. Zingale , C. M. Malone , A. Nonaka , A. S. Almgren , J. B. Bell

The optical/UV light curves of SN 1987A are analyzed with the multi-energy group radiation hydrodynamics code STELLA. The calculated monochromatic and bolometric light curves are compared with observations shortly after shock breakout,…

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