Controlling the Growth of Constraints in Hyperbolic Evolution Systems
Abstract
Motivated by the need to control the exponential growth of constraint violations in numerical solutions of the Einstein evolution equations, two methods are studied here for controlling this growth in general hyperbolic evolution systems. The first method adjusts the evolution equations dynamically, by adding multiples of the constraints, in a way designed to minimize this growth. The second method imposes special constraint preserving boundary conditions on the incoming components of the dynamical fields. The efficacy of these methods is tested by using them to control the growth of constraints in fully dynamical 3D numerical solutions of a particular representation of the Maxwell equations that is subject to constraint violations. The constraint preserving boundary conditions are found to be much more effective than active constraint control in the case of this Maxwell system.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0402027,
title = {Controlling the Growth of Constraints in Hyperbolic Evolution Systems},
author = {Lee Lindblom and Mark A. Scheel and Lawrence E. Kidder and Harald P. Pfeiffer and Deirdre Shoemaker and Saul A. Teukolsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0402027},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
final version to be published in Physical Review D