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We develop a second order well-balanced finite volume scheme for compressible Euler equations with a gravitational source term. The well-balanced property holds for arbitrary hydrostatic solutions of the corresponding Euler equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Jonas P. Berberich , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg , Friedrich K. Röpke

We have explored the evolution of gas distributions from cosmological simulations carried out using the RAMSES adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code, to explore the effects of resolution on cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. It is vital…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Owain N. Snaith , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Joakim Rosdahl

The explicit quasi-monotonic conservative TVD scheme and numerical method for the solution of the gravitational MHD equations are developed. The 2D numerical code for the simulation of multidimensional selfgravitating MHD flows on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander E. Dudorov , Oleg A. Kuznetsov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

We present a new 1-D multi-physics simulation code with use cases intended for, but not limited to, hydrodynamic escapeproblems of planetary atmospheres and planetary accretion models. Our formulation treats an arbitrary number of species…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Matthäus Schulik , Richard Booth

Reacting astrophysical flows can be challenging to model because of the difficulty in accurately coupling hydrodynamics and reactions. This can be particularly acute during explosive burning or at high temperatures where nuclear statistical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 M. Zingale , M. P. Katz , A. Nonaka , M. Rasmussen

Electrical resistivity plays a fundamental role in many astrophysical systems, influencing the evolution of the magnetic field and energy dissipation processes. During the coalescence of two neutron stars, resistive effects can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-15 Franceschetti Kevin , De Pietri Roberto

We present a new code for solving the coupled Einstein-hydrodynamics equations to evolve relativistic, self-gravitating fluids. The Einstein field equations are solved on one grid using pseudospectral methods, while the fluids are evolved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Matthew D. Duez , Lawrence E. Kidder , Saul A. Teukolsky

We present an algorithm for solving the radiative transfer problem on massively parallel computers using adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition. The solver is based on the method of characteristics which requires an adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-13 Lars Buntemeyer , Robi Banerjee , Thomas Peters , Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz

We present the FARGO3D code, recently publicly released. It is a magnetohydrodynamics code developed with special emphasis on protoplanetary disks physics and planet-disk interactions, and parallelized with MPI. The hydrodynamics algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Frédéric Masset

We present the new code NADA-FLD to solve multi-dimensional neutrino-hydrodynamics in full general relativity (GR) in spherical polar coordinates. The energy-dependent neutrino transport assumes the flux-limited diffusion (FLD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Ninoy Rahman , Oliver Just , H. -Thomas Janka

Exascale supercomputing unleashes the potential for simulations of astrophysical systems with unprecedented resolution. Taking full advantage of this computing power requires the development of new algorithms and numerical methods that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 L. Sewanou , G. Laibe , B. Commerçon

We report on the development of a test-particle based kinetic Monte Carlo code for large systems and its application to simulate matter in the continuum regime. Our code combines advantages of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-31 Irina Sagert , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Terrance Strother

We investigate two common numerical techniques for integrating reversible moist processes in atmospheric flows in the context of solving the fully compressible Euler equations. The first is a one-step, coupled technique based on using…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Max Duarte , Ann S. Almgren , Kaushik Balakrishnan , John B. Bell , David M. Romps

We present a numerical implementation for the solution of the relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics equations, designed as an independent module within the freely available code PLUTO. The radiation transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Andrea Mignone

We present an object-oriented geophysical and astrophysical spectral-element adaptive refinement (GASpAR) code for application to turbulent flows. Like most spectral-element codes, GASpAR combines finite-element efficiency with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Duane Rosenberg , Aime' Fournier , Paul Fischer , Annick Pouquet

We present a numerical method to solve the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics in a given external gravitational field. The method is based on a generalization of Roe's approximate Riemann solver for the non relativistic Euler…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frits Eulderink , Garrelt Mellema

Variable density incompressible flows are governed by parabolic equations. The artificial compressibility method makes these equations hyperbolic-type, which means that they can be solved using techniques developed for compressible flows,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-09 Shannon Leakey , Vassilis Glenis , Caspar J. M. Hewett

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

We have developed a 3-D Eulerian hydrodynamics code to model sources of gravitational radiation. The code is written in cylindrical coordinates $(\varpi,z,\varphi)$ and has moving grids in the $\varpi$ and $z$-directions. We use Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Scott C. Smith , Joan M. Centrella , Sean P. Clancy

We present Quokka, a new subcycling-in-time, block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) radiation hydrodynamics code optimised for graphics processing units (GPUs). Quokka solves the equations of hydrodynamics with the piecewise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz