Computational methods for nucleosynthesis and nuclear energy generation

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(99)00163-6MaRDI QIDQ1807727zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors W. Raphael Hix, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Publication date 23 November 1999

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906478

zbMATH Keywords

nuclear astrophysics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Nuclear physics (81V35) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

Abstract: This review concentrates on the two principle methods used to evolve nuclear abundances within astrophysical simulations, evolution via rate equations and via equilibria. Because in general the rate equations in nucleosynthetic applications form an extraordinarily stiff system, implicit methods have proven mandatory, leading to the need to solve moderately sized matrix equations. Efforts to improve the performance of such rate equation methods are focused on efficient solution of these matrix equations, by making best use of the sparseness of these matrices. Recent work to produce hybrid schemes which use local equilibria to reduce the computational cost of the rate equations is also discussed. Such schemes offer significant improvements in the speed of reaction networks and are accurate under circumstances where calculations with complete equilibrium fail.

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