Software I Use

I use several scientific software suites for my scientific endeavors - these software suites are typically FOSS (with the exception of Wolfram Mathematica).

Additional information about the scientific software suites I use can be found on their websites, which can be accessed by clicking on the logos or hyperlinks.

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) + GYRE stellar oscillation code

The publicly availabe large scientific software suite MESA is widely used by astrophysicists to simulate the evolution (life) of a star, and enables the user to specify a large variety of different hooks (that make a MESA run very customizable). It assumes certain widely used simplifications (for example, spherical symmetry) to be able to simulate how a star evolves from its birth to its death. I have used MESA to generate baseline models of the stellar structure at various moments throughout the evolution of star models of specific mass at starbirth.

Such baseline models were then employed as input for the publicly available GYRE stellar oscillation code to simulate waves propagating throughout the stellar interior. GYRE can simulate non-interacting (linear) standing and tidal waves. The models of these standing waves formed the input for the code suite that I developed, AESolver, which simulates non-linear interactions between oscillations.

Wolfram Mathematica

Described on their website as the world’s definitive system for modern technical computing, Mathematica aids (typically theoretically-inclined) astrophysicists and scientists from other disciplines in the development of mathematical/theoretical frameworks. I have used it to check my own work (derivations written on paper) while developing the theoretical framework that forms the basis for my computational frameworks AESolver and dervish.