Meeting the Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions: Castro, Maestro, and the AMReX Astrophysics Suite

M. Zingale; A. S. Almgren; M. G. Barrios Sazo; V. E. Beckner; J. B. Bell; B. Friesen; A. M. Jacobs; M. P. Katz; C. M. Malone; A. J. Nonaka; D. E. Willcox; W. Zhang

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1031/1/012024

Meeting the Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions: Castro, Maestro, and the AMReX Astrophysics Suite

M. Zingale
, A. S. Almgren
, M. G. Barrios Sazo
, V. E. Beckner
, J. B. Bell
, B. Friesen
, A. M. Jacobs
, M. P. Katz
, C. M. Malone
, A. J. Nonaka
, D. E. Willcox
, W. Zhang

Physics and Astronomy

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stony Brook University
Michigan State University
NVIDIA
Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Abstract

We describe the AMReX suite of astrophysics codes and their application to modeling problems in stellar astrophysics. Maestro is tuned to efficiently model subsonic convective flows while Castro models the highly compressible flows associated with stellar explosions. Both are built on the block-structured adaptive mesh refinement library AMReX. Together, these codes enable a thorough investigation of stellar phenomena, including Type Ia supernovae and X-ray bursts. We describe these science applications and the approach we are taking to make these codes performant on current and future many-core and GPU-based architectures.

Original language	English
Article number	012024
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	1031
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1031/1/012024
State	Published - Jun 1 2018
Event	12th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, ASTRONUM 2017 - Saint-Malo, France Duration: Jun 26 2017 → Jun 30 2017

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Zingale, M., Almgren, A. S., Barrios Sazo, M. G., Beckner, V. E., Bell, J. B., Friesen, B., Jacobs, A. M., Katz, M. P., Malone, C. M., Nonaka, A. J., Willcox, D. E., & Zhang, W. (2018). Meeting the Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions: Castro, Maestro, and the AMReX Astrophysics Suite. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1031(1), Article 012024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1031/1/012024

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Zingale, M, Almgren, AS, Barrios Sazo, MG, Beckner, VE, Bell, JB, Friesen, B, Jacobs, AM, Katz, MP, Malone, CM, Nonaka, AJ, Willcox, DE & Zhang, W 2018, 'Meeting the Challenges of Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions: Castro, Maestro, and the AMReX Astrophysics Suite', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 1031, no. 1, 012024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1031/1/012024

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