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Part IA: We present numerical measurements of relativistic scaling relations in $(2+1)$-dimensional conformal fluid turbulence, which perform favourably over their non-relativistic versions. As seen with incompressible turbulence in past…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

We develop numerical schemes for solving the isothermal compressible and incompressible equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics on a grid with staggered momenta. We develop a second-order accurate spatial discretization of the diffusive,…

Dust plays a key role in the evolution of the ISM and its correct modelling in numerical simulations is therefore fundamental. We present a new and self-consistent model that treats grain thermal coupling with the gas, radiation balance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 T. Grassi , S. Bovino , T. Haugboelle , D. R. G. Schleicher

We have developed a new computer code, RELDAFNA, to solve the conservative equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) on parallel computers. We have implemented a characteristic-wise, finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Ygal Y. Klein

Accurate simulations of flows in stellar interiors are crucial to improving our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Because the typically slow flows are merely tiny perturbations on top of a close balance between gravity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 P. V. F. Edelmann , L. Horst , J. P. Berberich , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , G. Leidi , C. Klingenberg , F. K. Roepke

In an attempt to investigate the structures of ultra-relativistic jets injected into the intracluster medium (ICM) and the associated flow dynamics, such as shocks, velocity shear, and turbulence, we have developed a new special…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Jeongbhin Seo , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Seungwoo Ha , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Magnetic fields play an important role in almost all astrophysical phenomena including star formation. But due to the difficulty in analytic modeling and observation, magnetic fields are still poorly studied and numerical simulation has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hao Xu , David C. Collins , Michael L. Norman , Shengtai Li , Hui Li

We present a new numerical code which solves the general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations coupled to the Einstein equations for the evolution of a dynamical spacetime within the conformally-flat approximation. This code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José A. Font , Luis Antón , Ewald Müller

Rastall's theory is a modification of Einstein's theory of gravity where the covariant divergence of the stress-energy tensor is no more vanishing, but proportional to the gradient of the Ricci scalar. The motivation of this theory is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabriel F. Silva , Oliver F. Piattella , Julio C. Fabris , Luciano Casarini , Taislane O. Barbosa

We consider a PDE system comprising compressible hydrodynamics, flux-limited diffusion radiation transport and chemical ionization kinetics in a cosmologically-expanding universe. Under an operator-split framework, the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel R. Reynolds , John C. Hayes , Pascal Paschos , Michael L. Norman

In atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics, the method of complex coordinate rotation is a widely used theoretical tool for studying resonant states. Here, we propose a novel implementation of this method based on the gradient optimization…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Zhi-Da Bai , Zhen-Xiang Zhong , Zong-Chao Yan , Ting-Yun Shi

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

We describe the implementation of multigrid solvers in the Athena++ adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework and their application to the solution of the Poisson equation for self-gravity. The new solvers are built on top of the AMR…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Kengo Tomida , James M. Stone

We present ECHO-QGP, a numerical code for $(3+1)$-dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamics designed for the modeling of the space-time evolution of the matter created in high energy nuclear collisions. The code has been built on top…

We present a new chemodynamical code - Ramses-CH - for use in simulating the self-consistent evolution of chemical and hydrodynamical properties of galaxies within a fully cosmological framework. We build upon the adaptive mesh refinement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Gareth Few , Stephanie Courty , Brad K. Gibson , Daisuke Kawata , Francesco Calura , Romain Teyssier

We present a new code, SCALAR, based on the high-resolution hydrodynamics and N-body code RAMSES, to solve the Schr\"odinger equation on adaptive refined meshes. The code is intended to be used to simulate axion or fuzzy dark matter models…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Mattia Mina , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

We present a new implementation of the tracer particles algorithm based on a Monte Carlo approach for the Eulerian adaptive mesh refinement code Ramses. The purpose of tracer particles is to keep track of where fluid elements originate in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Corentin Cadiou , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon

Understanding event-by-event correlations and fluctuations is crucial for the comprehension of the dynamics of heavy ion collisions. Relativistic hydrodynamics is an elegant tool for modeling these phenomena; however, such simulations are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 J. Porter-Sobieraj , M. Słodkowski , D. Kikoła , J. Sikorski , P. Aszklar

We present a new N-body and gas dynamics code, called Nyx, for large-scale cosmological simulations. Nyx follows the temporal evolution of a system of discrete dark matter particles gravitationally coupled to an inviscid ideal fluid in an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ann Almgren , John Bell , Mike Lijewski , Zarija Lukić , Ethan Van Andel

We present a new algorithm to solve the equations of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in a frequency-integrated, two-moment formulation. Novel features of the algorithm include i) the adoption of a non-local Variable Eddington Tensor (VET)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Shyam H. Menon , Christoph Federrath , Mark R. Krumholz , Rolf Kuiper , Benjamin D. Wibking , Manuel Jung