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A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al (2007), and…

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In this paper, we develop a stable and fast numerical scheme for relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics based on Israel-Stewart theory. Israel-Stewart theory is a stable and causal description of dissipation in relativistic hydrodynamics…

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Fully implicit timestepping methods have several potential advantages for atmosphere/ocean simulation. First, being unconditionally stable, they degrade more gracefully as the Courant number increases, typically requiring more solver…

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An approximate Riemann solver for the equations of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) is derived. The HLLC solver, originally developed by Toro, Spruce and Spears, generalizes the algorithm described in a previous paper (Mignone &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mignone , G. Bodo

This paper presents a comprehensive numerical framework for simulating radiation-plasma systems. The radiative transfer process spans multiple flow regimes due to varying fluid opacity across different regions, necessitating a robust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Mingyu Quan , Kun Xu

We describe an extension of the cosmological hydrodynamics code ENZO to include the self-consistent transport of ionizing radiation modeled in the flux-limited diffusion approximation. A novel feature of our algorithm is a coupled implicit…

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This paper explores Tadmor's minimum entropy principle for the relativistic hydrodynamics (RHD) equations and incorporates this principle into the design of robust high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and finite volume schemes for RHD on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Kailiang Wu

In this paper, we present and analyze an energy-conserving and linearly implicit scheme for solving the nonlinear wave equations. Optimal error estimates in time and superconvergent error estimates in space are established without time-step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Waixiang Cao , Dongfang Li , Zhimin Zhang

In this work we introduce an implicit-explicit invariant-domain preserving approximation of the nonequilibrium gray radiation-hydrodynamics equations. A time and space approximation of the system is proposed using a novel split of the…

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The evolution of many astrophysical systems is dominated by the interaction between matter and radiation such as photons or neutrinos. The dynamics can be described by the evolution equations of radiation hydrodynamics in which reactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Samuel Santos-Pérez , Martin Obergaulinger , Isabel Cordero-Carrión

We develop numerical methods for reaction-diffusion systems based on the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics (FHD). While the FHD formulation is formally described by stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), it becomes similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Changho Kim , Andy Nonaka , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev

This study investigates numerical methods to solve nonlinear transport problems characterized by various sorption isotherms with a focus on the Freundlich type of isotherms. We describe and compare second order accurate numerical schemes,…

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We propose an optimally performant fully implicit algorithm for the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) equations based on multigrid-preconditioned Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods. HMHD is a challenging system to solve numerically because…

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In this paper, we present an approach to solving the Riemann problem in one-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics, where the most computationally expensive steps of the exact solver are replaced by compact, highly specialized neural…

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This work concerns the numerical approximation with a finite volume method of inviscid, nonequilibrium, high-temperature flows in multiple space dimensions. It is devoted to the analysis of the numerical scheme for the approximation of the…

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We introduce CAFE, a new independent code designed to solve the equations of Relativistic ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) in 3D. We present the standard tests for a RMHD code and for the Relativistic Hydrodynamics (RHD) regime since we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. S. Guzman

We present a new approach to numerically model continuum radiative transfer based on the Optically Thin Variable Eddington Tensor (OTVET) approximation. Our method insures the exact conservation of the photon number and flux (in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Tom Abel

The nonlinear convection terms in the governing equations of compressible fluid flows are hyperbolic in nature and are nontrivial for modelling and numerical simulation. Many numerical methods have been developed in the last few decades for…

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This paper proposes a novel numerical method based on Godunov Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for special relativistic fluid dynamics. Our method utilizes a Riemann solver to describe shock, enhancing accuracy in strong shock waves. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Kanta Kitajima , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Izumi Seno

We develop a numerical hydrodynamics code using a pseudo-Newtonian formulation that uses the weak field approximation for the geometry, and a generalized source term for the Poisson equation that takes into account relativistic effects. The…

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