event
Tuesday 26 Jan 2010: Implicit hydrodynamic simulations of stellar convection
Dr Maxime Viallet - ENS-Lyon, France
Physics, 4th Floor interaction area 15:30-16:30
I will talk about a new hydrodynamic code for stellar interiors that we are currently developing in our team. The code is implicit in time, hence without any stability limit on the time step. I will present our motivation for developing such a tool and emphasize some important technical aspects of implicit solvers. I will also show some numerical results on stellar convection obtained with the code and will conclude by presenting future developments and astrophysical applications of the code.