PION: Simulations of Wind-Blown Nebulae

Autor: Mackey, Jonathan, Green, Samuel, Moutzouri, Maria, Haworth, Thomas J., Kavanagh, Robert D., Celeste, Maggie, Brose, Robert, Zargaryan, Davit, O'Rourke, Ciarán
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1017/S1743921322001399
Popis: We present an overview of PION, an open-source software project for solving radiation-magnetohydrodynamics equations on a nested grid, aimed at modelling asymmetric nebulae around massive stars. A new implementation of hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallel algorithms is briefly introduced, and improved scaling is demonstrated compared with the current release version. Three-dimensional simulations of an expanding nebula around a Wolf-Rayet star are then presented and analysed, similar to previous 2D simulations in the literature. The evolution of the emission measure of the gas and the X-ray surface brightness are calculated as a function of time, and some qualitative comparison with observations is made.
Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings, IAUS362: The predictive power of computational astrophysics as discovery tool (D. Bisikalo, T. Hanawa, C. Boily, J. Stone, eds.)
Databáze: arXiv