ENZO: AN ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT CODE FOR ASTROPHYSICS

By Corey Brummel-Smith, Greg L. Bryan, Iryna Butsky, L. Corlies, A. Emerick, John C. Forbes, Y. Fujimoto, N. Goldbaum, P. Grete, Cameron Hummels and 45 more. 2013

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This paper describes the open-source code Enzo, which uses block-structured adaptive mesh refinement to provide high spatial and temporal resolution for modeling astrophysical fluid flows. The code is Cartesian, can be run in one, two, and three dimensions, and supports a wide variety of physics including hydrodynamics, ideal and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics, N-body dynamics (and, more broadly, self-gravity of fluids and particles), primordial gas chemistry, optically thin radiative cooling of primordial and metal-enriched plasmas (as well as some optically-thick cooling models), radiation transport, cosmological expansion, and models for star formation and feedback in a cosmological context. In addition to explaining the algorithms implemented, we present solutions for a wide range of test problems, demonstrate the code's parallel performance, and discuss the Enzo collaboration's code development methodology.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation (2017, background): “By “turning off cooling” for some adjusted duration, as in Stinson et al. (2006); Governato et al. (2010); Macciò et al. (2012); Teyssier et al. (2013); Stinson et al. (2013); Crain et al. (2015), or directly putting in winds “by hand” as in Springel & Hernquist (2003a); Davé et al. (2006); Anglés-A”
Titans of the early Universe: The Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes (2018, methodology): “Smidt et al. (2016) demonstrated, using Enzo (Bryan et al. 2014) and radiative transfer in post-processing, that an AGN powered by a black hole of mass 3× 107 M accreting at fEdd = 0.25–0.9 can account for the observations.”
An improved SPH scheme for cosmological simulations (2015, positive): “The results are close to a test run performed with the ENZO (Bryan et al. 2014) code in a comparable set-up, which we 1 http://www.astrosim.net/code/doku.php MNRAS 455, 2110–2130 (2016) took from Hopkins (2013).”