SkyNet: a modular nuclear reaction network library

J Lippuner, LF Roberts - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Almost all of the elements heavier than hydrogen that are present in our solar system were
produced by nuclear burning processes either in the early universe or at some point in the …

Following nuclei through nucleosynthesis: A novel tracing technique

TM Sprouse, MR Mumpower, R Surman - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Astrophysical nucleosynthesis is a family of diverse processes by which atomic nuclei
undergo nuclear reactions and decay to form new nuclei. The complex nature of …

Skeletal Kinetics Reduction for Astrophysical Reaction Networks

AG Nouri, Y Liu, P Givi, H Babaee… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel methodology is developed to extract accurate skeletal reaction models for nuclear
combustion. Local sensitivities of isotope mass fractions with respect to reaction rates are …

Explicit integration with GPU acceleration for large kinetic networks

B Brock, A Belt, JJ Billings, M Guidry - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
We demonstrate the first implementation of recently-developed fast explicit kinetic
integration algorithms on modern graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. Taking as a …

Fast explicit solutions for neutrino-electron scattering: Explicit asymptotic methods

A Lackey–Stewart, R Chari, A Cole, N Brey, K Gregory… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We present results of explicit asymptotic approximations applied to neutrino-electron
scattering in a representative model of neutrino population evolution under conditions …

Algebraic stabilization of explicit numerical integration for extremely stiff reaction networks

M Guidry - Journal of Computational Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
In contrast to the prevailing view in the literature, it is shown that even extremely stiff sets of
ordinary differential equations may be solved efficiently by explicit methods if limiting …

Explicit integration of extremely stiff reaction networks: partial equilibrium methods

MW Guidry, JJ Billings, WR Hix - Computational Science & …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In two preceding papers (Guidry et al 2013 Comput. Sci. Disc. 6 015001 and Guidry and
Harris 2013 Comput. Sci. Disc. 6 015002), we have shown that when reaction networks are …

Explicit integration of extremely stiff reaction networks: asymptotic methods

MW Guidry, R Budiardja, E Feger… - … Science & Discovery, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that, even for extremely stiff systems, explicit integration may compete in both
accuracy and speed with implicit methods if algebraic methods are used to stabilize the …

[图书][B] r-Process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers with the new nuclear reaction network SkyNet

J Lippuner - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Abstract At the Big Bang, only the lightest elements, mainly hydrogen and helium, were
produced. Stars synthesize heavier elements, such as helium, carbon, and oxygen, from …

Performance analysis and acceleration of explicit integration for large kinetic networks using batched GPU computations

A Haidar, B Brock, S Tomov, M Guidry… - 2016 IEEE High …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the systematic implementation of recently-developed fast explicit kinetic
integration algorithms that solve efficiently N coupled ordinary differential equations (subject …