Turbulence modelling in neutron star merger simulations

Understand

Observations of neutron star mergers have the potential to unveil detailed physics of matter and gravity in regimes inaccessible by other experiments.

• Quantitative comparisons to theory and parameter estimation require nonlinear numerical simulations.
• However, the detailed physics of energy and momentum transfer between different scales, and the formation and interaction of small scale structures, which can be probed by detectors, are not captured by current simulations.
• This is where turbulence enters neutron star modelling.