We report on the development of an implicit multi-D hydrodynamic code for stellar evolution. We present two test-cases relevant for the first scientific goal of the code: the simulation of convection in pulsating stars. First results on a realistic stellar model are also presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.5555,
title = {Implicit hydrodynamic simulations of stellar interiors},
author = {Maxime Viallet and Isabelle Baraffe and Cedric Mulet-Marquis and Emmanuel Leveque and Rolf Walder and Bernd Freytag and Christophe Winisdoerffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5555},
year = {2010}
}
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To appear in the Proceedings of Astronum 2009, 4th Int. Conf. on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (refereed paper)