ABSTRACT
The dramatic impact of computation on astronomy and astrophysics is manifested in many ways. Modern numerical codes are now being used to simulate and understand the evolution, explosion, and nucleosynthesis of stars, how the elements are injected into the interstellar medium, molecular clouds, and extant planetary systems, and the cosmic evolution of the abundances. Exploiting these new capabilities for nuclear astrophysics will require new software instruments and sustained funding support for focused multi-institutional research collaborations. The use of numerical methods to solve research problems in astrophysics on a computer is a part of computational astrophysics. Numerical methods are used whenever the mathematical model describing an astrophysical system is too complex to solve analytically. So, application of numerical computational techniques for the solution research problems in nuclear astrophysics is inevitable. Computational astrophysics has a long history, dating back to the numerical approximation of the motion of the moon and planets in order to compute ephemeris for tides and navigation.
