Bert's blog

Astronomy

Rewriting legacy code — Legacy code is a general term used for software that was conceived and developed a long time ago, but that for some reason is still actively being used. Many sciences (astronomy is one of them)...

The St Andrews Monte Carlo summer school — The St Andrews Monte Carlo Summer School or SAMCSS is a biyearly summer school that is primarily aimed at PhD students based in the UK, and has been organised since 2013. I have been involved...

Radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the evolution of the diffuse ionized gas in disc galaxies — A paper describing some of my recent work has recently been accepted for publication (pre-print), and this seems like a good opportunity to tell you something more about it. The paper summarises the work I...

Testing the stability of supersonic ionised Bondi accretion flows with radiation hydrodynamics

Testing the stability of supersonic ionised Bondi accretion flows with radiation hydrodynamics — Last week, a scientific paper that has been in my scientific pipeline for over a year got accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Vandenbroucke et al., 2019), and this seems...