Michael Zingale: WD Mergers

Max Katz, Michael Zingale, Alan Calder, Doug Swesty, Doug Swesty, Ann Almgren, & Weiqun Zhang
We are modeling the inspiral and merger of white dwarf binaries as a model of Type Ia supernovae using Castro
All of the source code for reproducing these simulations is available on github

Simulations of Merging White Dwarfs

A volume rendering of the density after the merger of a 0.6 and 0.9 solar mass white dwarf. This image is from a calculation that was performed on ORNL's Titan supercomputer. The infrastructure for modeling white dwarf mergers with Castro is provided in the wdmerger git repo.

publications

White Dwarf Mergers on Adaptive Meshes. I. Methodology and Code Verification, M. P. Katz, M. Zingale, A. C. Calder, F. D. Swesty, A. S. Almgren, & W. Zhang, 2016, ApJ, 819, 94