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Numerical methods to improve the treatment of magnetic fields in smoothed field magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) are developed and tested. Chapter 2 is a review of SPMHD. In Chapter 3, a mixed hyperbolic/parabolic scheme is developed which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Terrence S. Tricco

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) code integrated into the Athena++ framework. It treats energetic particles as in conventional PIC codes while the rest of thermal plasmas are treated as background fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Xiaochen Sun , Xue-Ning Bai

We present a detailed comparison between two adaptive numerical approaches to solve partial differential equations (PDEs), adaptive multiresolution (MR) and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). Both discretizations are based on finite volumes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Ralf Deiterding , Margarete O. Domingues , Sonia M. Gomes , Kai Schneider

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

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 novel gradient regularization to completely eliminate the magnetic divergence error in meshless magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which offers a high spatial resolution and conservative advantage, due to its Lagrangian nature.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Xiongbiao Tu , Qiao Wang , Liang Gao , Yifa Tang

A new method for implementing the kinetic energy operator for real-space, grid-based electronic structure codes is developed. It is based on multi-order Adaptive Finite Differencing (AFD) and uses atomic pseudo orbitals produced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 E. L. Briggs , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc

A method for performing high order mesh refinement multigrid computations is presented. The Full Approximation Scheme (FAS) multigrid technique is utilized for a sequence of nested patches of increasing resolution. Conservation forms are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas L. Beck

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

In this paper we propose a novel thermodynamically compatible finite volume scheme for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one and two space dimensions. As shown by Godunov in 1972, the MHD system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser

We present a new hybrid paradigm for parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) that combines the scalability and lightweight architecture of tree-based AMR with the computational efficiency of patch-based solvers for hyperbolic conservation…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Carsten Burstedde , Donna Calhoun , Kyle Mandli , Andy R. Terrel

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

This paper describes the design and implementation of our new multi-group, multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code Fornax and provides a suite of code tests to validate its application in a wide range of physical regimes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Aaron Skinner , Joshua C. Dolence , Adam Burrows , David Radice , David Vartanyan

Balsara (2001, J. Comput. Phys., 174, 614) showed the importance of divergence-free reconstruction in adaptive mesh refinement problems for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and the importance of the same for designing robust second order schemes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dinshaw S. Balsara

We present a constrained transport (CT) algorithm for solving the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on a moving mesh, which maintains the divergence-free condition on the magnetic field to machine-precision. Our CT scheme uses an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Lars Hernquist

We describe a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) constrained energy functional for equilibrium calculations that combines the topological constraints of ideal MHD with elements of Taylor relaxation. Extremizing states allow for partially chaotic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , M. J. Hole , M. McGann

We present a new numerical implementation of the general-relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations within the Whisky code. The numerical method adopted exploits the properties of implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Kyriaki Dionysopoulou , Daniela Alic , Carlos Palenzuela , Luciano Rezzolla , Bruno Giacomazzo

MRChem is a code for molecular electronic structure calculations, based on a multiwavelet adaptive basis representation. We provide a description of our implementation strategy and several benchmark calculations. Systems comprising more…

Numerical evolution of the spherically symmetric, massive Klein-Gordon field is presented using a new adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code with fourth order discretization in space and time, along with compactification in space. The system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Csizmadia

We present a new multi-fluid, grid MHD code PIERNIK, which is based on the Relaxing TVD scheme (Jin & Xin, 1995). The original scheme (see Trac & Pen (2003) and Pen et al. (2003)) has been extended by an addition of dynamically independent,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-25 Michał Hanasz , Kacper Kowalik , Dominik Wóltański , Rafał Pawłaszek