What have 1-d simulations told us?

• 1-dimensional simulations are already very successful in matching observations of bursts.

  • Predictions of rise times and durations.
  • Yield the good lightcurves and luminosities.
  • Can obtain nucleosynthetic yields (much larger networks can be carried in 1-d).

• Series of bursts can be simulated in 1-d (e.g. Woosley 1984; Taam, Woosley, and Lamb 1993).

  • Simulations seem to yield the right intervals.
  • Sequences of bursts would be prohibitively expensive to compute in multi-D with explicit hydro.

• 1-d simulations assume completely uniform burning.