Showing 82 results for Author: Bronson E. Messer
Aug, 2011
Conference Paper
The CHIMERA code is a multi-dimensional multi-physics engine dedicated primarily to the simulation of core collapse supernova explosions. One of the most important aspects of these explosions is their capacity to produce gravitational radiation that is detectable by earth-based laser-interferometric gravitational wave observatories such as LIGO and VIRGO. We present here p…
May, 2011
Conference Paper
CHIMERA is a multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics code designed to study core-collapse supernovae. The code is made up of three essentially independent parts: a hydrodynamics module, a nuclear burning module, and a neutrino transport solver combined within an operator-split approach. Given CHIMERA’s complexity and pace of ongoing development, a new support system, Bel…
Jan, 2011
Conference Paper
Core-collapse supernova models depend on the details of the nuclear and weak interaction physics inputs just as they depend on the details of the macroscopic physics (transport, hydrodynamics, etc.), numerical methods, and progenitors. We present the results of our ongoing comparison studies of nuclear and weak interaction physics inputs to core collapse supernova models u…
Aug, 2008
Journal
In 2005, Oak Ridge National Laboratory received delivery of a 5,294 processor Cray XT3. The XT3 is Cray's third-generation massively parallel processing system. The ORNL system uses a singleprocessor node built around the AMD Opteron and uses a custom chip-called SeaStar-for interprocessor communication. The system uses a lightweight operating system called Catamount on it…
Nov, 2006
Journal
The simulation of core collapse supernovae calls for the time accurate solution of the (Euler) equations for inviscid hydrodynamics coupled with the equations for neutrino transport. The time evolution is carried out by evolving the Euler equations explicitly and the neutrino transport equations implicitly. Neutrino transport is modeled by the multi-group Boltzmann transpo…