The model
s15WH07 is a general-relativistic, multi-group radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of a collapsing 15 M☉ star. It ends 597 ms after core bounce, with the shock 867 km out.
What you are looking at
Entropy in colour.
Its gradient in light.
The picture
Colour follows a model of specific entropy: red where it is low — the shock front, the cool downflows between plumes — blue where it is high. Brightness and opacity follow the gradient of its turbulent part, so bubble walls turn into luminous membranes, after the paper's gradient-enhanced kernel.
The numbers
- Grid
- 633³ at 3.96 km
- Time steps
- 1077
- Data
- 1.1 TB
Source: SC18 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase. The field on this page is procedural: it is styled after the paper's storyline and transfer function and uses none of its data. Times and radii between bounce and the final step are a modelled curve.