Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-12-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
5 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 11th Symposium of Nuclei in the Cosmos, July 19-23 2010, Heidelberg, Germany
Scientific paper
The post-processing of passively advected Lagrangian tracer particles is still the most common way for obtaining detailed nucleosynthetic yield predictions of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) hydrodynamical simulations. Historically, tracer particles of constant mass are employed. However, intermediate mass elements, such as e.g. Ne, Mg, Al, or Si, are typically synthesized in the outer layers of SNe Ia, where due to the lower initial density a constant mass tracer distribution results in poor resolution of the spatial morphology of the abundance distribution. We show how to alleviate this problem with a suitably chosen distribution of variable tracer particle masses. We also present results of the convergence of integrated nucleosynthetic yields with increasing tracer particle number. We find that the yields of the most abundant species (mass fraction > 10E-5) are reasonably well predicted for a tracer number as small as 32 per axis and direction. Convergence for isotopes produced in regions where a constant tracer mass implementation results in poor spatial resolution can be improved by suitably choosing tracers of variable mass.
Fink Manfred
Pakmor Ruediger
Roepke Friedrich Konrad
Seitenzahl Ivo R.
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