Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars. [Hydrodynamics, Convection].

Download or read book Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars. [Hydrodynamics, Convection]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt is reported to build self-consistent evolutionary models of complete massive stars, starting from their observable zero-age main sequence configurations, and evolving through their various hydrostatic nuclear burning stages, iron core collapse, bounce, outward-going shock formation, and finally, explosive nucleosynthesis and supernovae light curve formation. The model incorporates implicit hydrodynamics with a new treatment of time-dependent convection and semiconvection, and a careful treatment of the complexities of the advanced stages of stellar burning. The model was used to completely evolve population I stars of 15 and 25 M/sub solar mass/, with excellent agreement with the known properties and the prediction of other properties. 65 references. (JFP).