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Inhomogeneous Cosmology using General Relativistic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics coupled to Numerical Relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-07-31 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We perform three-dimensional simulations of homogeneous and inhomogeneous cosmologies via the coupling of a numerical relativity code for spacetime evolution and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Evolution of a flat dust and radiation dominated Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Roberston-Walker (FLRW) spacetime shows an agreement of exact solutions with residuals on the order 10610^{-6} and 10310^{-3} respectively, even at low grid resolutions. We demonstrate evolution of linear perturbations of density, velocity and metric quantities to the FLRW with residuals of only 10210^{-2} compared to exact solutions. Finally, we demonstrate the evolution of non-linear perturbations of the metric past shell-crossing, such that dark matter halo formation is possible. We show that numerical relativistic smoothed particle hydrodynamics is a viable method for understanding non-linear effects in cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2307.15194,
  title  = {Inhomogeneous Cosmology using General Relativistic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics coupled to Numerical Relativity},
  author = {Spencer J. Magnall and Daniel J. Price and Paul D. Lasky and Hayley J. Macpherson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15194},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRD