SELECTED PAPERS
The complete publications list is here (Pdf, 42KB).

  • Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars, Their Winds, and Their Nebulae
    Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, and George Meynet.
    Space Science Reviews 166, 145-185, 2012.
    pdf-file (1.3 MB)

  • Towards a new generation of multi-dimensional stellar evolution models: development of an implicit hydrodynamic code
    M. Viallet, I. Baraffe, and R. Walder.
    Astronomy and Astrophysics 531, id.A86, 2011.
    pdf-file (1.4 MB)

  • Recurrent Novae: Progenitors of SN Ia?
    Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, J.M. Favre, and S.N. Shore.
    Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum-2009, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Edouard Audit, and Gary P. Zank, Eds.. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 173, 2010.
    pdf-file (1.7 MB)

  • Supersonically Turbulent, Shock Bound Interaction Zones
    Doris Folini, Rolf Walder, and J.M. Favre
    Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Astronum-2009, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Edouard Audit, and Gary P. Zank, Eds.. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 9, 2010.
    pdf-file (1.7 MB)

  • The different progenitors of type Ib, Ic SNe, and of GRB
    Cyril Georgy, George Meynet, Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, and André Maeder.
    Astronomy and Astrophysics 502, 611-622, 2009.
    pdf-file (1.7 MB)

  • 3D simulations of RS Oph: from accretion to nova blast
    Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, and Steven N. Shore.
    Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters 484, L9-L12 , 2008.
    pdf-file (1 MB)

  • Aspects of Turbulence in Astrophysics
    Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, and Jean Favre.
    ERCOFTAC-bulletin, 70, 2006.
    Invited contribution to the special issue on compressible turbulence of the European Research Community of Flows, Turbulence, and Combustion (ERCOFTAC).
    pdf-file (1 MB)


  • Supersonic turbulence in shock-bound interaction zones I: symmetric settings
    Doris Folini and Rolf Walder.
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, 459, 1-19, 2006.
    pdf-file (2.6 MB)


  • The Spin Periods and Rotational Profiles of Neutron Stars at Birth
    Christian D. Ott, Adam Burrows, Todd A. Thompson, Eli Livne, and Rolf Walder.
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 164, 130-155, 2006.
    pdf-file (0.4 MB)


  • Anisotropies in the Neutrino Fluxes und Heating Profiles in Two-dimensional, Time-dependent, Multi-Group Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulation of Rotating Core-Collapse Supernova
    Rolf Walder, Adam Burrows, Christian D. Ott,
    Eli Livne, Itamar Lichtenstadt, and Moath Jarrah.
    The Astrophysical Journal, 626, 317-332, 2005.
    Available in 3.7MB pdf-file.

  • Two-dimensional, time-dependent, multi-group, multi-angle radiation hydrodynamics test simulation in the core-collapse supernova context
    Eli Livne, Adam Burrows, Rolf Walder, Itamar Lichtenstadt, and Todd Thompson.
    The Astrophysical Journal, 609, 277-287, 2004.
    Available in 4.8MB pdf-file.

  • Gravitational waves from axisymmetric rotating stellar core collapse
    Christian D. Ott, Adam Burrows, Eli Livne and Rolf Walder
    The Astrophysical Journal, 600, 834-864, 2004
    Available in 2.9MB pdf-file.

  • Structuring and support by Alfvèn waves around prestellar cores
    Doris Folini, Jean Heyvaerts and Rolf Walder
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, 414, 559-572, 2004
    pdf-file (1.36MB)

  • 3D-hydrodynamics of colliding winds in massive binaries
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    In K.A. van der Hucht, A. Herrero & C. Esteban (eds.),
    A Massive Star Odyssey, from Main Sequence to Supernova
    In: IAU Symp. No. 212 (San Francisco: ASP), 2002, 7 pages.
    or in 1.1MB pdf-file.

  • A new method for 3D radiative transfer with adaptive grids
    Doris Folini, Rolf Walder, Michael Psarros, and Alexandere Desboeufs
    Proceedings of the Workshop
    Stellar Atmosphere Modeling
    To appear in: PASP conference series, 4 pages.
    Available in 100KB pdf-file.

  • Theoretical considerations on colliding clumped winds
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    Proceedings of the Workshop
    Interacting Winds from Massive Stars
    To appear in: PASP conference series, 8 pages.
    Available in 286KB pdf-file.

  • On the stability of colliding flows: radiative shocks, thin shells, and supersonic turbulence
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    Astrophysics and Space Scienc 274, 343-352 2000. (Moscow conference on 'progress in cosmic gas-dynamics'), 10 pages.
    Available also in a 400 KB pdf file.

  • A-MAZE: A code package to compute 3D magnetic flows, 3D NLTE radiative transfer, and synthetic spectra
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    In: Thermal and Ionization Aspects of Flows from Hot Stars: Observations and Theory, ASP Conference Series 204,
    eds. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers and A. Sapar, 281-284, 2000.
    Available also in a 47KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Theory of thermal and ionization effects in colliding winds of WR+O binaries
    Doris Folini and Rolf Walder
    Invited review.
    In: Thermal and Ionization Aspects of Flows from Hot Stars: Observations and Theory, ASP Conference Series 204,
    eds. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers and A. Sapar, 267-278, 2000.
    Available also in a 63KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Complex wind dynamics and ionization structure in symbiotic binaries
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    Invited review.
    In: Thermal and Ionization Aspects of Flows from Hot Stars: Observations and Theory, ASP Conference Series 204,
    eds. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers and A. Sapar, 331-342, 2000.
    Available also in a 2.3MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • A wind accretion wake in RW Hydrae?
    Thomas Dumm, Doris Folini, Harry Nussbaumer, Hansruedi Schild, Werner Schmutz, and Rolf Walder
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, 354, 1014--1020, 2000.
    Available also in a 150KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Colliding winds in WR binaries:
    further developments within a complicated story
    Rolf Walder, Doris Folini, and Simin Motamen
    in K.A. van der Hucht, G. Koenigsberger, P.R.J. Eenens (eds), Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies, Proc. IAU Symposium No. 193 (San Francisco: ASP), 298-305, 1999.
    Available also in a 1.22MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Radiative Shocks, Supersonic Turbulence and Structure Formation in Space
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    in M. Fey and R. Jeltsch, editors, Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications. Seventh International Conference in Zürich, number 130 in International Series of Numerical Mathematics, pages 973-982, Birkhäuser, 1999.
    Available also in a 1.71MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • 3D radiative transfer under conditions of non local thermodynamic equilibrium: A contribution to the numerical solution
    Doris Folini and Rolf Walder
    in M. Fey and R. Jeltsch, editors, Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications. Seventh International Conference in Zürich, number 129 in International Series of Numerical Mathematics, pages 973-982, Birkhäuser, 1999.
    Available also in a 0.1MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Knots, filaments, and turbulence in radiative shocks
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    A&A, 330:L21-L24 (1998).
    Available in a 1.83MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Visualization of Astrophysical Data with AVS/Express
    Jean M. Favre, Rolf Walder, and Doris Folini
    CRAY User Conference, Stuttgart, 1998.
    Available in a 0.65MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • The formation of knots and filaments in shocks
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    Proceedings of the Workshop on Hypersonic Radiative Outflows out of Thermal Equilibrium,
    Astrophysics and Space Science 260, 215-224, 1998.
    Available also in a 0.76MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Colliding winds in binary star systems: theory, models
    Rolf Walder
    Review, Proceedings of the Workshop on Hypersonic Radiative Outflows out of Thermal Equilibrium,
    Astrophysics and Space Science 260, 243-252, 1998.
    Available also in a 0.55MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Radiative cooling instability in 1D colliding flows
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    A&A, 315, 265-283, 1996.
    Available in a 378KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Wind Accretion In Separated Binaries
    Rolf Walder
    Accretion phenomena and related outflows, IAU Colloquium No. 163, 822-823, 1997. Available in a 40KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • 3D Simulations of Colliding Hypersonic Radiative Flows in Astrophysics
    Rolf Walder
    in Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications
    Editors: J.Glimm, M.J.Graham, J.W. Grove and B.J. Plohr
    pages 478-484, 1996.
    Available in a 583KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • The ROSAT spectrum of the symbiotic nova AG Pegasi: evidence for colliding winds
    Urs Mürset, Stefan Jordan and Rolf Walder
    A&A, 297, L87-90, 1995.
    Available in a 162KB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Simulations of Colliding Winds in 3 Dimensions
    Rolf Walder
    in IAU Symposium 163.
    Editors: K. A. Van der Hucht and P. M. Williams,
    pages 420-423, 1995.

  • Instabilities in colliding winds
    Rolf Walder and Doris Folini
    in IAU Symposium 163
    Editors: K. A. Van der Hucht and P. M. Williams
    pages 525-526 (1995).
    Available also in a 0.64MB gzipped Postscript file.

  • Some Aspects of the Computational Dynamics of Astrophysical Nebulae
    Rolf Walder
    PhD-thesis, ETH No. 10302, 1994.


  • Modification of the nebular environment in symbiotic systems due to colliding winds
    Harry Nussbaumer and Rolf Walder
    A&A, 267, 155-160, 1993.

  • Stability analysis of colliding winds in a double star system
    Ruth Dgani, Rolf Walder and Harry Nussbaumer
    A&A, 278, 209-225, 1993.

  • Grid Alignment Effects and Rotated Methods for Computing Complex Flows in Astrophysics
    Randall J. LeVeque and Rolf Walder
    Proceedings of the Ninth GAMM-Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics.
    Editors: J. B. Vos, A. Rizzi and I. L. Ryhming,
    pages 376--385, 1992.