fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, reactive flows, turbulence, shockwaves, detonations, adaptive methods, high performance computing, data analytics, reliable computations, verification & validation

• FSU to host international astrophysics conference May 20-24 (see HEDLA 2024)
  
• Press release: FSU computational scientist demonstrates how supernovae detonate
• Toward Data-Driven Subgrid-Scale Modeling of the Zel'dovich Deflagration-To-Detonation Mechanism in Dense Stellar Plasmas, Brandon Gusto's doctoral dissertation (April 2023)
  
  
• A hybrid adaptive multiresolution approach for the efficient simulation of reactive flows
  
• Type Ia supernovae deflagration-to-detonation transition explosions powered by the Zel'dovich reactivity gradient mechanism
  
• How high energy fluxes may affect Rayleigh–Taylor instability growth in young supernova remnants
  
• Multidimensional Models of Type Ia Supernova Nebular Spectra: Strong Emission Lines from Stripped Companion Gas Rule Out Classic Single Degenerate Systems
  
• Detonability of White Dwarf Plasma: Turbulence Models at Low Densities
  
• Imprints of the Ejecta-Companion Interaction in Type Ia Supernovae: Main-Sequence, Subgiant, and Red Giant Companions
  
• No Double Detonations but Core Carbon Ignitions in High-Resolution, Grid-Based Simulations of Binary White Dwarf Mergers
  

Undergraduate Project UROP: Experiments in Computational Stellar Astrophysics
Hydro Group
Funding Opportunities and Jobs
Helpful resources

Thermonuclear supernovae
Core-collapse supernovae
White Dwarf Mergers

AMRA, Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Astrophysics
Galactic cooling flows
FLASH-HC, ray-tracing on AMR meshes (Erik's thesis)
FLASH, multi-physics AMR code
ZEUS, interstellar medium in galaxies
Protoplanetary disks (code-to-code: ER-RTN, Wengen4)
RJET, relativistic jets
CPPA, Cosmological Pressureless Parabolic Advection

DivSNRT: Diverging supernova explosion experiments on NIF
High-energy density laser experiments

Verification and Validation

Teaching

amr   codes   html   ism   movies   numerical methods   presentations   publications   v&v

Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
FSU Astrophysics group
High-Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA), Inc.: HEDLA 2006, HEDLA 2008, HEDLA 2010, HEDLA 2012, HEDLA 2014, HEDLA 2016, HEDLA 2018, HEDLA 2022, HEDLA 2024