English

Discontinuous Galerkin method for the spherically reduced BSSN system with second-order operators

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-12-23 v2

Abstract

We present a high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin method for evolving the spherically-reduced Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) system expressed in terms of second-order spatial operators. Our multi-domain method achieves global spectral accuracy and long-time stability on short computational domains. We discuss in detail both our scheme for the BSSN system and its implementation. After a theoretical and computational verification of the proposed scheme, we conclude with a brief discussion of issues likely to arise when one considers the full BSSN system.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1008.1820,
  title  = {Discontinuous Galerkin method for the spherically reduced BSSN system with second-order operators},
  author = {Scott E. Field and Jan S. Hesthaven and Stephen R. Lau and Abdul H. Mroue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1820},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

35 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, uses revtex4. Revised in response to referee's report

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