An adaptive code for radial stellar model pulsations (Q1270733)

We describe an implicit one-dimensional adaptive mesh hydrodynamic code that is specially tailored for radial stellar pulsations. The code has the useful feature that unwanted, long lasting transients can be avoided by smoothly switching on the adaptive mesh features starting from the Lagrangian code. Thus, a limit cycle pulsation that can be computed, and the relaxation method of Stellingwerf will converge in a few tens of pulsation cycles when put into the adaptive mesh code. The code has been checked with two shock problems (Noh and Sedov), for which analytical solutions are known, and it has been found to be accurate and stable.