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We have proposed a new High Resolution Shock Capturing (HRSC) scheme for Special Relativistic Hydrodynamics (SRHD) based on the semidiscrete central Godunov-type schemes and a modified Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory (WENO) data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanvir Rahman , R. B. Moore

We conduct a numerical study of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics in the Density Frame for one-dimensional fluid flows. The Density Frame is a formulation of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics that is first-order in time, requires no…

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a subject concerned with the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids (plasma) and can be applied in electric power generation. As a unique technology for producing direct-current electricity without moving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Osama A. Marzouk

A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

We describe a conservative, shock-capturing scheme for evolving the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, and van Leer scheme. A variant of constrained transport, proposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles F. Gammie , Jonathan C. McKinney , Gábor Tóth

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods coupled to WENO algorithms allow high order convergence for smooth problems and for the simulation of discontinuities and shocks. In this work, we investigate WENO-DG algorithms in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Marcus Bugner , Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Andreas Weyhausen , Bernd Bruegmann

The paper describes a new upwind conservative numerical scheme for special relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with scalar resistivity. The magnetic field is kept approximately divergence free and the divergence of the electric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Komissarov

We derive and analyze a simplified formulation of the numerical viscosity terms appearing in the expression of the numerical fluxes associated to several High-Resolution Shock-Capturing schemes. After some algebraic pre-processing, we give…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Aloy , J. A. Pons , J. M. Ibanez

We present novel numerical schemes for ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations aimed at enhancing stability against numerical shock instability and improving the accuracy of low-speed flows in multidimensions. Stringent benchmark tests…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-22 Takashi Minoshima

In this paper, a high order free-stream preserving finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme is developed for the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on curvilinear meshes. Under the constrained transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Yize Yu , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

We present a new methodology for simulating self-gravitating general-relativistic fluids. In our approach the fluid is modelled by means of Lagrangian particles in the framework of a general-relativistic (GR) Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 S. Rosswog , P. Diener

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

This paper describes a multidimensional hydrodynamic code which can be used for studies of relativistic astrophysical flows. The code solves the special relativistic hydrodynamic equations as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Dongsu Ryu

Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

In recent years, dynamical relativistic jet simulation techniques have progressed to a point where it is becoming possible to fully numerically resolve gamma-ray burst (GRB) blast-wave evolution across scales. However, the modeling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Eliot H. Ayache , Hendrik J. van Eerten , Rupert W. Eardley

We present a new multidimensional classical hydrodynamics code based on Semidiscrete Central Godunov-type schemes and high order Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory (WENO) data reconstruction. This approach is a lot simpler and easier to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanvir Rahman , R. B. Moore

Cases have shown that WENO schemes usually behave robustly on problems containing shocks with high pressure ratios when uniformed or smooth grids are present, while nonlinear schemes based on WENO interpolations might relatively be liable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Qin Li , Dong Sun

In this paper, we propose a simple hybrid WENO scheme to increase computational efficiency and decrease numerical dissipation. Based on the characteristic-wise approach, the scheme switches the numerical flux of each characteristic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-13 X. Y. Hu , B. Wang , N. A. Adams

A high-order finite difference numerical scheme is developed for the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations based on an alternative flux formulation of the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme. It computes a high-order numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Andrew J. Christlieb , Xiao Feng , Yan Jiang , Qi Tang

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo