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most citedSensitivity of Simulations of Double Detonation Type Ia Supernova to Integration Methodology

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astro-ph.IM2026

pynucastro 3: A community library for nuclear astrophysics

Zhi Chen, Khanak Bhargava, Eric T. Johnson +8

We describe the latest release of pynucastro: a community python library for nuclear astrophysics. The goal of the pynucastro project is to build the tools needed to interactively…

astro-ph.IM2026

AMReX-Astrophysics Microphysics: A set of microphysics routines for astrophysical simulation codes based on the AMReX library

Astro Microphysics Team, Khanak Bhargava, Abigail Bishop +15

The AMReX-Astrophysics Microphysics library provides a common set of microphysics routines (reaction networks and associated physics, equations of state, and various transport coef…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Reacting Flows

Michael Zingale, Khanak Bhargava, Ryan Brady +5

Stellar evolution is driven by the changing composition of a star from nuclear reactions. At the late stages of evolution and during explosive events, the timescale can be short an…

astro-ph.SR2024

Strong Coupling of Hydrodynamics and Reactions in Nuclear Statistical Equilibrium for Modeling Convection in Massive Stars

Michael Zingale, Zhi Chen, Eric T. Johnson +2

We build on the simplified spectral deferred corrections (SDC) coupling of hydrodynamics and reactions to handle the case of nuclear statistical equilibrium (NSE) and electron/posi…

astro-ph.IM2023

A Framework for Exploring Nuclear Physics Sensitivity in Numerical Simulations

Zhi Chen, Eric T. Johnson, Max Katz +3

We describe the AMReX-Astrophysics framework for exploring the sensitivity of astrophysical simulations to the details of a nuclear reaction network, including the number of nuclei…

nucl-th2023

pynucastro 2.1: an update on the development of a python library for nuclear astrophysics

Alexander Smith Clark, Eric T. Johnson, Zhi Chen +5

pynucastro is a python library that provides visualization and analyze techniques to classify, construct, and evaluate nuclear reaction rates and networks. It provides tools that a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Sensitivity of Simulations of Double Detonation Type Ia Supernova to Integration Methodology

Michael Zingale, Zhi Chen, Melissa Rasmussen +4

We study the coupling of hydrodynamics and reactions in simulations of the double detonation model for Type Ia supernovae. When assessing the convergence of simulations, the focus…

astro-ph.IM2022

pynucastro: A Python Library for Nuclear Astrophysics

Alexander Smith Clark, Eric T. Johnson, Zhi Chen +6

We describe pynucastro 2.0, an open source library for interactively creating and exploring astrophysical nuclear reaction networks. We demonstrate new methods for approximating ra…