No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
PION: Simulations of Wind-Blown Nebulae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2023
Abstract
We present an overview of PION, an open-source software project for solving radiation-magnetohydrodynamics equations on a nested grid, aimed at modelling asymmetric nebulae around massive stars. A new implementation of hybrid OpenMP/MPI parallel algorithms is briefly introduced, and improved scaling is demonstrated compared with the current release version. Three-dimensional simulations of an expanding nebula around a Wolf-Rayet star are then presented and analysed, similar to previous 2D simulations in the literature. The evolution of the emission measure of the gas and the X-ray surface brightness are calculated as a function of time, and some qualitative comparison with observations is made.
Keywords
- Type
- Contributed Paper
- Information
- Copyright
- © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union