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On the piecewise parabolic method for compressible flow with stellar equations of state

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The piecewise parabolic method and related schemes are widely used to model stellar flows. Several different methods for extending the validity of these methods to a general equation of state (EOS) have been proposed over time, but direct comparisons among one-another and exact solutions with stellar EOSs are not widely available. We introduce some simple test problems with exact solutions run with a popular stellar EOS and test how two existing codes with different approaches to incorporating general gases perform. The source code for generating the exact solutions is made available.

Original languageEnglish
Article number31
JournalAstrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume216
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2015

Keywords

  • hydrodynamics
  • methods: numerical

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