Wednesday, December 14, 2011

1112.3033 (Ke-Jung Chen et al.)

Conservative Initial Mapping For Multidimensional Simulations of Stellar Explosions    [PDF]

Ke-Jung Chen, Alexander Heger, Ann Almgren
Mapping one-dimensional stellar profiles onto multidimensional grids as initial conditions for hydrodynamics calculations can lead to numerical artifacts, one of the most severe of which is the violation of conservation laws for physical quantities such as energy and mass. Here we introduce a numerical scheme for mapping one-dimensional spherically-symmetric data onto multidimensional meshes so that these physical quantities are conserved. We validate our scheme by porting a realistic 1D Lagrangian stellar profile to the new multidimensional Eulerian hydro code CASTRO. Our results show that all important features in the profiles are reproduced on the new grid and that conservation laws are enforced at all resolutions after mapping.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3033

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