5 ms·

Pretty incredible that the simulations take "many months" to run on what I presume would be a supercomputer of some sort. What sort of resolution are they model

• aardvark179 6y ago
  Picking one of the linked papers at random they are simulating down to about 500m cubes.
  • jetrink 6y ago
    To put that in some sort of perspective, NOAA's highest resolution weather model uses 3000m grids and they are "only" simulating the thin layer of atmosphere over a single continent.
    • sandworm101 6y ago
      But the NOAA's weather grids are probably populated with a greater number of variables. And they have a vertical dimension/gradient that isn't present in the homogenous blocks of material simulated in the stars.
      • jetrink 6y ago
        I only mean to point out that 500m is quite detailed, particularly in terms of the vast scale of a star. I wasn't commenting on the relative sophistication of the models or anything like that.