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Maestro


A low Mach number hydrodynamics code for modeling astrophysical convection. Maestro filters soundwaves from the equations of hydrodynamics, allowing it to take timesteps based on the advective fluid velocity instead of the much more strictive (for low speed flows) sound speed.  The result is an enormous efficiency boost. Maestro captures compressibility effects due to stratification, local heat release from nuclear reactions, thermal diffusion, and compositional mixed. The code is parallelized with MPI and OpenMP.
 
IACS RESEARCHERS
Michael Zingale
Donald Willcox
Adam Jacobs
 
LICENSE
BSD-3
 
WEBSITE
 
JOURNAL REFERENCE
MAESTRO: An Adaptive Low Mach Number Hydrodynamics Algorithm for Stellar Flows Nonaka, A., Almgren, A. S., Bell, J. B., Lijewski, M. J., Malone, C., & Zingale, M., 2010, ApJS, 188, 358