National Center for Computational Sciences

PI: Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Core-collapse supernovas are the death throes of massive stars. They are the single most important source of elements in the universe. Understanding how they occur is one of the crucial unsolved problems in astrophysics. The focus of this project is to perform multidimensional, multiphysics simulations of core-collapse supernovas in an effort to determine the supernova explosion mechanism.