Publication Type
Conference Paper
Journal Name
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Publication Date
Page Number
012010
Volume
125
Issue
1
Conference Name
4th Annual Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Conference (SciDAC 2008)
Conference Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Conference Date
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Abstract
CHIMERA is a multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics code designed to study core-collapse supernovae. The code is made up of three essentially independent parts: a hydrodynamics module, a nuclear burning module, and a neutrino transport solver combined within an operator-split approach. We review the code's architecture and some recently improved implementations used in the code. We also briefly discuss preliminary results obtained with the code in three spatial dimensions.
