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   Software Instruments
     Stellar equation of states
     EOS with ionization
     EOS for supernovae
     Chemical potentials
     Stellar atmospheres

     Voigt Function
     Jeans escape
     Polytropic stars
     Cold white dwarfs
     Adiabatic white dwarfs

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     Stellar opacities
     Neutrino energy loss rates
     Ephemeris routines
     Fermi-Dirac functions

     Polyhedra volume
     Plane - cube intersection
     Coating an ellipsoid

     Nuclear reaction networks
     Nuclear statistical equilibrium
     Laminar deflagrations
     CJ detonations
     ZND detonations

     Fitting to conic sections
     Unusual linear algebra
     Derivatives on uneven grids
     Pentadiagonal solver
     Quadratics, Cubics, Quartics

     Supernova light curves
     Exact Riemann solutions
     1D PPM hydrodynamics
     Hydrodynamic test cases
     Galactic chemical evolution

     Universal two-body problem
     Circular and elliptical 3 body
     The pendulum
     Phyllotaxis

     MESA
     MESA-Web
     FLASH

     Zingale's software
     Brown's dStar
     GR1D code
     Iliadis' STARLIB database
     Herwig's NuGRID
     Meyer's NetNuc

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Some software instruments, some more sophisticated than others:

Stellar equation of states
Equation of state with ionization
EOS for core collapse supernovae
Electron chemical potentials
Simple stellar atmospheres

Voigt Function
Jeans thermal escape
Polytropic stars
Cold white dwarfs
Adiabatic white dwarfs

Cold neutron stars
Stellar opacities
Neutrino energy loss rates
Ephemeris routines
Fermi-Dirac functions

Volume of a polyhedron
Volume of plane-cube intersection
Coating an ellipsoid
Nuclear reaction networks
Nuclear statistical equilibrium
Laminar deflagrations
Chapman-Jouget detonations
ZND detonations

Fitting data to conic sections
Derivatives on uneven grids
An unusual linear equation solver
Penta- and Hepta-diagonal solvers
Quadratics, Cubics & Quartics

Supernova light curves
Exact Riemann solutions
1D PPM hydrodynamics
Hydrodynamic test cases
Galactic chemical evolution

Universal two-body problem
Circular and elliptical three-body
The pendulum
Phyllotaxis

Community software instrument contributions:

MESA offers a stellar evolution software instrument
FLASH-X offers a multi-dimensional, multi-physics software instrument


Some software instruments by colleagues:

Adam Jermyn: Skye EOS and Automatic Differentiation
Sasha Potekhin: PC EOS
Carl Fields: GitHub
Mike Zingale: GitHub
Ed Brown: dStar
Christian Iliadis: STARLIB
Evan O'Connor: NuLib and GR1D
Josiah Schwab: MESAHub, mesa-stats and more.
Falk Herwig: NuDocker
Brad Meyer: NucNet
Natalie Hinkel: Hypatia Catalog
Rich Townsend: MESASDK, GYRE, and MSG
Evan Bauer: MESA-Docker on GitHub
Rob Farmer: mesaplot, pymesa on GitHub
Matt Turk: yt
Jonas Lippuner: SkyNet

Gems from the past:

⟳ Michael Gehmeyr's and Dimitri Mihalas' implicit 1D radiation hydrodynamics software instrument TITAN, which is described in this 1994 article and this 1997 article.


A community-driven software ecosystem for new science in astrophysics:

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⟳ 2015 NSF SI2 PI workshop
⟳ 2016 NSF SI2 PI workshop
⟳ 2018 NSF SI2 PI workshop
⟳ 2019 Digital Infrastructure workshop


 



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