Scalable, Hydrodynamic and Radiation-Hydrodynamic Studies of Neutron Stars Mergers

Authors

F. Douglas Swesty
Paul E. Saylor
Dennis C. Smolarski, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
E. Y.M. Wang

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

11-1997

Publisher

IEEE

Abstract

We discuss the high performance computing issues involved in the numerical simulation of binary neutron star mergers and supernovae. These phenomena, which are of great interest to astronomers and physicists, can only be described by modeling the gravitational field of the objects along with the flow of matter and radiation in a self consistent manner. In turn, such models require the solution of the gravitational field equations, Eulerian hydrodynamic equations, and radiation transport equations. This necessitates the use of scalable, high performance computing assets to conduct the simulations. We discuss some of the parallel computing aspects of this challenging task in this paper.

Chapter of

Swesty, F. D., Saylor, P. E., Smolarski, D.C., & Wang, E.Y.M., (1997). Scalable, Hydrodynamic and Radiation-Hydrodynamic Studies of Neutron Stars Mergers. SC ’97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, 6–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.1997.10048

Comments

Date of Conference: 15-21 Nov. 1997

Conference Location: San Jose, CA, USA

Recommended Citation

Swesty, F. D., Saylor, P. E., Smolarski, D.C., & Wang, E.Y.M., (1997). Scalable, Hydrodynamic and Radiation-Hydrodynamic Studies of Neutron Stars Mergers. SC ’97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, 6–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.1997.10048