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Contact: F.X.Timmes
my one page vitae,
full vitae,
research statement, and
teaching statement.

Before using these reaction networks you should probably glance at my method of madness, Raph Hix's & Brad Meyer's excellent article, Brad Meyer's annual review article, George Wallerstein's review of modern physics article, and this National Nuclear Physics Summer School lectures on reaction networks.

There is a certain irremovable complexity associated with stiff systems of ordinary differential equations $$ \dot {{\bf y}} = {\bf f} \ ({\bf y}) \label{eq1} \tag{1} $$ when the right hand side is a complicated function, the Jacobian matrix $\tilde{{\bf J}}$ is sparse, and one wants a high-quality time integration. The tools below use an analytical Jacobian, a variable-order Bader-Deuflhard integration method, and MA28 sparse linear algebra. The reaction network and thermodynamics are integrated simultaneously. That is, they are fully coupled. Hydrostatic, one-step, adiabatic expansion, self-heating at constant density, self-heating through constant pressure, and arbitrary thermodynamic histories are currently supported.

These reaction networks are a snapshot of my current research efforts. If you want to put these reaction networks in a stellar evolution or hydrodynamics software instrument, and/or you want the networks to execute as efficiently as possible, feel free to contact me.

Make H & He

* Big Bang
Burn hydrogen

* pp chains

* cno cycles

* pp + cno

* hotcno + rp

* pp+hotcno+rp

* 8 isotopes
Alpha-chains

* 7 isotopes

* 13 isotopes

* 19 isotopes

* 21 isotopes

* Full H + He

Eat neutrons

* s-process
General network

* torch


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