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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...

Tools I use for scientific code execution

Tools I use for scientific code execution — In a previous post, I already covered the main tools I use during the scientific code development process. These tools were all closely related to writing, testing and maintaining code. In this post, I will...

The five steps of an astrophysical simulation project — During the past few years, I have conducted or been involved with quite a few astrophysical simulation projects. Despite being very different in subject (some of these simulations involved single stars, while others covered entire...