期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
卷 318, 期 -, 页码 277-304出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.05.011
关键词
Astrophysics; Stellar models
资金
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), under grant ESTER [ANR-09-BLAN-0140]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique through the Programme National de Physique Stellaire (PNPS, CNRS/INSU)
- CALMIP [2015-P0107]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-09-BLAN-0140] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Stars may be understood as self-gravitating masses of a compressible fluid whose radiative cooling is compensated by nuclear reactions or gravitational contraction. The understanding of their time evolution requires the use of detailed models that account for a complex microphysics including that of opacities, equation of state and nuclear reactions. The present stellar models are essentially one-dimensional, namely spherically symmetric. However, the interpretation of recent data like the surface abundances of elements or the distribution of internal rotation have reached the limits of validity of one-dimensional models because of their very simplified representation of large-scale fluid flows. In this article, we describe the ESTER code, which is the first code able to compute in a consistent way a two-dimensional model of a fast rotating star including its large-scale flows. Compared to classical 1D stellar evolution codes, many numerical innovations have been introduced to deal with this complex problem. First, the spectral discretization based on spherical harmonics and Chebyshev polynomials is used to represent the 2D axisymmetric fields. A nonlinear mapping maps the spheroidal star and allows a smooth spectral representation of the fields. The properties of Picard and Newton iterations for solving the nonlinear partial differential equations of the problem are discussed. It turns out that the Picard scheme is efficient on the computation of the simple polytropic stars, but Newton algorithm is unsurpassed when stellar models include complex microphysics. Finally, we discuss the numerical efficiency of our solver of Newton iterations. This linear solver combines the iterative Conjugate Gradient Squared algorithm together with an LU-factorization serving as a preconditioner of the Jacobian matrix. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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