Published February 27, 2023 | Version v1

Heat transport and convective velocities in compositionally-driven convection in neutron star and white dwarf interiors

  • 1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0526, USA
  • 2. Department of Physics and Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
  • 3. Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA

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MESA (version r22.11.1) inlists and source code used for the paper "Heat transport and convective velocities in compositionally-driven convection in neutron star and white dwarf interiors". cool_wd.zip contains the MESA files to reproduce the results discussed in section 4 of the paper. A Python-based Dedalus v3 script to reproduce the 3D numerical simulations presented in section 3 of the paper is included as Compositionally_driven_convection_3D_shell.py.

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Preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.04273 (DOI)