Does artificial viscosity destroy prompt type-II supernova explosions?

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Gravitational Collapse, Stellar Cores, Stellar Physics, Supernovae, Finite Difference Theory, Hydrodynamic Equations, Shock Wave Propagation, Stellar Models, Viscosity

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We apply two different methods for the numerical treatment of the hydrodynamical equations to the problem of stellar core collapse in one dimension, starting the simulations with the same initial model and using the same equation of state. We follow the collapse with a standard Lagrangian finite difference scheme with artificial viscosity and compare it with a second order Godunov-type scheme (PPM), which works in Eulerian coordinates. Different from Marti et al. (1990) our results demonstrate that with a careful use of an up-to-date tensor form for the artificial viscosity the results of both codes are in excellent agreement. Therefore we conclude that the failure of the prompt shock mechanism to explode type-II supernovae is not due to an inadequate numerical description of the hydrodynamics, but must have other, possibly physical, reasons.

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