Microphysics

A collection of astrophysical microphysics routines for stellar explosions

There are several core types of microphysics routines hosted here:

• EOS/: these are the equations of state. All of them use a Fortran derived type eos_t to pass the thermodynamic state information in and out.

• integration/: this holds the various ODE integrators. Some have been marked up with OpenACC to run on GPUs

• interfaces/: this holds the Fortran derived types used to interface with the EOS and networks. Note: copies of these are included with Maestro and Castro. They are copied here for testing and to enable other codes to use this repo.

• networks/: these are the reaction networks. They serve both to define the composition and its properties, as well as describe the reactions and energy release when reactions occur.

• neutrinos/: this holds the plasma neutrino cooling routines used in the reaction networks.

• rates/: this contains some common rate routines used by the various aprox networks, and could be expanded to contain other collections of rates in the future

• screening/: the screening routines for nuclear reactions. These are called by the various networks

• unit_test/: code specific to unit tests within this repo. In particular,

  • test_eos will test an equation of state by first calling it will (rho, T), and then calling it with other inputs to recover rho and/or T. A cube of data, with rho, T, and X is tested.

  • test_react will call a reaction network on a cube of data (rho, T, X).

• util: linear algebra routines for the various integrators (including BLAS and LINPACK)

AMReX-Astro Codes

At the moment, these routines are written to be compatible with the AMReX-Astro codes, Maestro and Castro.

• Castro: http://amrex-astro.github.io/Castro/

• Maestro: http://amrex-astro.github.io/MAESTRO/

To use this repository with AMReX codes, set MICROPHYSICS_HOME to point to the Microphysics/ directory.

There are various unit tests that work with the AMReX build system to test these routines.

Other Simulation Codes

The interfaces are fairly general, so they can be expanded to other codes. This will require adding any necessary make stubs for the code's build system as well as writing unit tests for that build system to ensure the interfaces are tested.

Documentation

A user's guide for Microphysics can be found in Docs/. Type make to build it from its LaTeX source.

A PDF of the user's guide is available here: http://bender.astro.sunysb.edu/Castro/staging/Microphysics/Docs/MicrophysicsUsersGuide.pdf