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A spectral approach to numerical simulations of the ADM equations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-09-10 v1

Abstract

We present a numerical study of the Einstein equations, according to the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formalism, in order to simulate the dynamics of gravitational fields. We took in consideration the original 3+13+1 decomposition of the ADM equations, in vacuum conditions, in simplified geometries. The numerical code is based on spectral methods, making use of filtering (de-aliasing) techniques. The algorithm has been stabilized via an adaptive time-refinement, based on a procedure that checks self-consistently the regularity of the solutions. The accuracy of our numerical model has been validated through a series of standard tests. Finally, we present also a new kind of initial data that can be used for testing numerical codes.

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@article{arxiv.1909.03055,
  title  = {A spectral approach to numerical simulations of the ADM equations},
  author = {C. Meringolo and S. Servidio and P. Veltri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03055},
  year   = {2019}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0305023 by other authors