All of this research is computationally intensive. We develop a number of codes with our collaborators to model our astrophysical systems. All the software we develop is open source and freely available. Our main codes are listed below.
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MAESTROeX
MAESTROeX
is a low Mach number hydrodynamics code that
efficiently models convective burning in
stratified astrophysical flows. It is developed
in collaboration with the Center for
Computational Sciences and Engineering at LBNL
and is freely available.
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Castro
Castro
is a fully-compressible hydrodynamics code
developed at CCSE/LBNL. We collaborate with
that group on the hydrodynamics solvers in the
code.
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pyro
pyro
is a teaching code designed to be introduce
students to some of the methods commonly used in
astrophysical simulations. Solvers include
advection, compressible, incompressible, and low
Mach number hydrodynamics, diffusion, and
multigrid.
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pynucastro
pynucastro
is a python library for nuclear astrophysics. It allows
for the interactive exploration of reaction rates and building
reaction networks which can then be exported to C++ code.