Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 764, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/97
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convection; hydrodynamics; methods: numerical; nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; supernovae: general; white dwarfs
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- DOE/Office of Nuclear Physics [DE-FG02-06ER41448]
- Applied Mathematics Program of the DOE Office of Advance Scientific Computing Research under U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program
- Office of Science of the Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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We assess the robustness of a low Mach number hydrodynamics algorithm for modeling helium shell convection on the surface of a white dwarf in the context of the sub-Chandrasekhar model for Type Ia supernovae. We use the low Mach number stellar hydrodynamics code, MAESTRO, to perform three-dimensional, spatially adaptive simulations of convection leading up to the point of the ignition of a burning front. We show that the low Mach number hydrodynamics model provides a robust description of the system.
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