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We present a numerical code for radiation hydrodynamics designed as a module for the freely available PLUTO code. We adopt a gray approximation and include radiative transfer following a two-moment approach by imposing the M1 closure to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Hubert Klahr , Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

Mesh generation is essential for accurate and efficient computational fluid dynamics simulations. To resolve critical features in the flow, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is routinely employed in certain regions of the computational domain,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Yongzheng Zhu , Shiji Zhao , Yuanye Zhou , Hong Liang , Xin Bian

We describe a grid-based numerical method for 3D hydrodynamic cosmological simulations which is adaptive in space and time and combines the best features of higher order--accurate Godunov schemes for Eulerian hydrodynamics with adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Michael L. Norman , Greg L. Bryan

We present a class of high order finite volume schemes for the solution of non-conservative hyperbolic systems that combines the one-step ADER-WENO finite volume approach with space-time adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Michael Dumbser , Arturo Hidalgo , Olindo Zanotti

We employ the PLUTO code for computational astrophysics to assess and compare the validity of different numerical algorithms on simulations of the magneto-rotational instability in 3D accretion disks. In particular we stress on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Flock , N. Dzyurkevich , H. Klahr , A. Mignone

A high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in multiple space dimensions is presented. A high order one-step time discretization is achieved using a local space-time discontinuous Galerkin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-27 Olindo Zanotti , Michael Dumbser , Arturo Hidalgo , Dinshaw Balsara

We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot , Dominique Aubert , Timothy Stranex , Romain Teyssier

We have developed a simulation code with the techniques which enhance both spatial and time resolution of the PM method for which the spatial resolution is restricted by the spacing of structured mesh. The adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hideki Yahagi , Yuzuru Yoshii

We describe a powerful methodology for numerical solution of 3-D self-gravitational hydrodynamics problems with extremely high resolution. Our method utilizes the technique of local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), employing multiple grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher , Christopher F. McKee , J. Kelly Truelove

Time-dependent cooling processes are of paramount importance in the evolution of astrophysical gaseous nebulae and, in particular, when radiative shocks are present. The present work introduces a necessary set of tools that can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-20 O. Tesileanu , A. Mignone , S. Massaglia

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysics on a wide variety of scales, ranging from the Sun and compact objects to galaxies and galaxy clusters. Here we discuss a novel implementation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruediger Pakmor , Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel

We introduce the public version of the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical moving-mesh simulation code Arepo. This version contains a finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics algorithm on an unstructured, dynamic Voronoi tessellation coupled to a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rainer Weinberger , Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor

In this work, we introduce GRChombo: a new numerical relativity code which incorporates full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) using block structured Berger-Rigoutsos grid generation. The code supports non-trivial "many-boxes-in-many-boxes"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Katy Clough , Pau Figueras , Hal Finkel , Markus Kunesch , Eugene A. Lim , Saran Tunyasuvunakool

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…

In this work, we introduce the novel application of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique in the global stability analysis of incompressible flows. The design of an accurate mesh for transitional flows is crucial. Indeed, an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Daniele Massaro , Valerio Lupi , Adam Peplinski , Philipp Schlatter

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

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) enables efficient computation of flows by providing high resolution in critical regions while allowing for coarsening in areas where fine detail is unnecessary. While early AMR software packages relied solely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer Essel , Pierre Sullivan

The present paper introduces a class of finite volume schemes of increasing order of accuracy in space and time for hyperbolic systems that are in conservation form. This paper specifically focuses on Euler system that is used for modeling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Tobias Rumpf , Michael Dumbser , Claus-Dieter Munz

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

In certain astrophysical systems the commonly employed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation breaks down. Here, we introduce novel explicit and implicit numerical schemes of ohmic resistivity terms in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-09 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Rahul Kannan , Philip Mocz , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel