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Gauge conditions for long-term numerical black hole evolutions without excision

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Numerical relativity has faced the problem that standard 3+1 simulations of black hole spacetimes without singularity excision and with singularity avoiding lapse and vanishing shift fail after an evolution time of around 30-40M due to the so-called slice stretching. We discuss lapse and shift conditions for the non-excision case that effectively cure slice stretching and allow run times of 1000M and more.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0206072,
  title  = {Gauge conditions for long-term numerical black hole evolutions without excision},
  author = {Miguel Alcubierre and Bernd Bruegmann and Peter Diener and Michael Koppitz and Denis Pollney and Edward Seidel and Ryoji Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0206072},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

19 pages, 14 figures, REVTeX, Added a missing Acknowledgment

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