An Approach to Neutrino Radiative Transfer in Supernova Simulations
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Neutrinos dominate the energetics of core-collapse supernovae, and are believed to play an important role in driving the explosion. The development of a spatially multidimensional neutrino radiative transfer code is a key part of the Terascale Supernova Initiative, a multi-year effort aimed at understanding the supernova explosion mechanism through supercomputer simulations. I will describe the conservative formulations of general relativistic radiative transfer we have developed for this application, and the algorithm we are implementing in our parallel code.
11 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of Numerical Methods for Multidimensional Radiative Transfer Problems (RadConf2003), Heidelberg, Germany, 24-26 September 2003, edited by R. Rannacher and R. Wehrse
11 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of Numerical Methods for Multidimensional Radiative Transfer Problems (RadConf2003), Heidelberg, Germany, 24-26 September 2003, edited by R. Rannacher and R. Wehrse