# CASTRO: A New Compressible Astrophysical Solver. II. Gray Radiation Hydrodynamics

## Author(s): Zhang, W; Howell, L; Almgren, A; Burrows, Adam S.; Bell, J

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, W-
dc.contributor.authorHowell, L-
dc.contributor.authorAlmgren, A-
dc.contributor.authorBell, J-
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-10T19:32:23Z-
dc.date.available2019-04-10T19:32:23Z-
dc.date.issued2011-10en_US
dc.identifier.citationZhang, W, Howell, L, Almgren, A, Burrows, A, Bell, J. (2011). CASTRO: A New Compressible Astrophysical Solver. II. Gray Radiation Hydrodynamics. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 196 (20 - 20. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/196/2/20en_US
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dc.description.abstractWe describe the development of a flux-limited gray radiation solver for the compressible astrophysics code, CASTRO. CASTRO uses an Eulerian grid with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement based on a nested hierarchy of logically rectangular variable-sized grids with simultaneous refinement in both space and time. The gray radiation solver is based on a mixed-frame formulation of radiation hydrodynamics. In our approach, the system is split into two parts, one part that couples the radiation and fluid in a hyperbolic subsystem, and another parabolic part that evolves radiation diffusion and source–sink terms. The hyperbolic subsystem is solved explicitly with a high-order Godunov scheme, whereas the parabolic part is solved implicitly with a first-order backward Euler method.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe Astrophysical Journal Supplement Seriesen_US
dc.rightsFinal published version. This is an open access article.en_US
dc.titleCASTRO: A New Compressible Astrophysical Solver. II. Gray Radiation Hydrodynamicsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.1088/0067-0049/196/2/20-
dc.date.eissued2011-09-30en_US
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