SNSPH: A Parallel 3-D Smoothed Particle Radiation Hydrodynamics Code

Abstract

We provide a description of the SNSPH code--a parallel 3-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics code implementing treecode gravity, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and flux-limited diffusion transport schemes. We provide descriptions of the physics and parallelization techniques for this code. We present performance results on a suite of code tests (both standard and new), showing the versatility of such a code, but focusing on what we believe are important aspects of modeling core-collapse supernovae.

41 pages including 8 figures, submitted to ApJ, version with high resolution figures and test data can be found at http://qso.lanl.gov/~clf/