The unifying theme of this workshop is the computational approach to astrophysical fluids, be they plasmas, neutral clouds, or some mix of the two. Emphasis will be placed on 1) the range of astrophysical applications appropriate to each computational technique, 2) the methodologies developed for including gravity, magnetic fields, radiation transport, dust, energy sinks and sources, and other physical processes, and 3) the algorithmic responses developed to avoid instabilities and unphysical dissipation in the computations. Topics to include:
o accretion disk instabilities
o jet formation
o molecular cloud support
o origin & growth of cosmic magnetic fields
o evolution of galactic magnetic fields
o planetary nebulae
o astrophysical pair plasmas
o dust and gas in accretion disks & in radiatively-driven winds
o interstellar chemistry
o turbulence
o first generation
o current star formation
o star formation in high-pressure environments
o multiple star and cluster formation
o detonations, flame propagation
o nuclear reaction networks
o breakdown of the fluid approximation at small scales, low densities
o comparisons of particle versus finite difference methodologies
o advances in adaptive mesh refinement techniques
o test cases for codes
Willy Benz
(University of Bern)
Phillip Colella
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Richard Klein, Chair
(University of California at Berkeley/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
James McWilliams
(UCLA)
Joseph Monaghan
(Monash University, Australia)
Michael Norman
(University of California at San Diego)
Robert Rosner
(Univ. of Chicago)
Chi-Wang Shu
(Brown University)
Jim Stone
(Princeton University)
Marco Velli
(University of Florence)
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