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We here present a new version of the publicly available general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code $\texttt{Spritz}$, which now includes an approximate neutrino leakage scheme able to handle neutrino cooling and heating. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-08 Federico Cipolletta , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Bruno Giacomazzo , Riccardo Ciolfi , Lorenzo Sala , Beatrice Giudici

mcdust is a parallel simulation code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is written in FORTRAN90 and parallelised with OpenMP. The code models dust collisional evolution and transport in the vertical and radial directions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Nerea Gurrutxaga , Joanna Drążkowska

Simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are performed with a fluid and a kinetic code. The initial condition is an ensemble of long-wavelength, counter-propagating, shear-Alfv\'{e}n waves, which interact and rapidly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 K. D. Makwana , V. Zhdankin , H. Li , W. Daughton , F. Cattaneo

Modeling multi-scale collisionless magnetized processes constitutes an important numerical challenge. By treating electrons as a fluid and ions kinetically, the so-called hybrid Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes represent a promising…

Many problems at the forefront of theoretical astrophysics require the treatment of magnetized fluids in dynamical, strongly curved spacetimes. Such problems include the origin of gamma-ray bursts, magnetic braking of differential rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Branson C. Stephens

We present a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve isothermal magnetohydrodynamic (IMHD) equations for use in modeling astrophysical flows. First, we have built a one-dimensional code which is based on an explicit finite-difference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , S. S. Hong

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

We describe a numerical method to solve the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The fluid variables are updated along each direction using the flux conservative, 2nd order, total variation diminishing (TVD), upwind scheme of Jin and Xin.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ue-Li Pen , Phil Arras , ShingKwong Wong

Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a hybrid Radiation-Hydrodynamics (RHD) scheme that couples an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

A new magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code based on initial value approach, GMEC_I, has been developed for simulating various MHD physics in tokamak plasmas, as the MHD foundation of the gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code (GMEC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 P. Y. Jiang , Z. Y. Liu , S. Y. Liu , J. Bao , G. Y. Fu

The aim of this paper is to study the vertical profile of small dust particles in protoplanetary discs in which angular momentum transport is due to MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability. We consider particle sizes that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Fromang , Richard P. Nelson

A description is given for preserving ${\bmsy\nabla}\cdot{\vec B}=0$ in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that employs the upwind, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme and the Strang-type operator splitting for multi-dimensionality. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dongsu Ryu , Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

The study of the interaction between solid objects and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids is of great importance in physics as consequence of the significant phenomena generated, such as planets interacting with stellar wind produced by their…

We present the first 2D hydrodynamical finite volume simulations in which dust is fully coupled with the gas, including its back-reaction onto it, and at the same time the dust size is evolving according to coagulation and fragmentation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomas Tamfal , Joanna Drazkowska , Lucio Mayer , Clément Surville

We present a structure-preserving discretization of the hybrid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)-driftkinetic system for simulations of low-frequency wave-particle interactions. The model equations are derived from a variational principle,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Byung Kyu Na , Stefan Possanner , Xin Wang

In this paper, we show that similar open-source codes for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) produce different results for key features of binary neutron star mergers. First, we present a new open-source version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Pedro Luis Espino , Gabriele Bozzola , Vasileios Paschalidis

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of the $m = 1$ resistive internal kink mode in a two-dimensional (2D) configuration containing a central region of negative current density, also known as the "current hole" setup. The finite-element…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Hubert Baty

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

A recently developed spectral-element adaptive refinement incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code [Rosenberg, Fournier, Fischer, Pouquet, J. Comp. Phys. 215, 59-80 (2006)] is applied to simulate the problem of MHD island coalescence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 C. S. Ng , D. Rosenberg , K. Germaschewski , A. Pouquet , A. Bhattacharjee