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The recent imaging of the M87 black hole at millimeter wavelengths by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has triggered a renewed interest in numerical models for the accretion of magnetized plasma in the regime of general…

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We present AsterX, a novel open-source, modular, GPU-accelerated, fully general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code designed for dynamic spacetimes in 3D Cartesian coordinates, and tailored for exascale computing. We utilize…

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We assemble the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in 3+1 form. These consist of the complete coupled set of Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field, Einstein's equations for the gravitational field, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present \texttt{SACRA-2D}, a new MPI and OpenMP parallelized, fully relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) code in dynamical spacetime under axial symmetry with the cartoon method using the finite-volume shock-capturing schemes for…

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A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It combines higher-order Godunov methods with the constrained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner , Peter Teuben , John F. Hawley , Jacob B. Simon

We present MHDuet, an open source evolution code for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with neutrino transport. The code solves the full set of Einstein equations coupled to a relativistic, magnetized fluid with an M1 neutrino…

This paper presents a new computer code to solve the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations using distributed parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The fluid equations are solved using a finite difference Convex ENO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew Anderson , Eric Hirschmann , Steven L. Liebling , David Neilsen

Relativistic macroscopic plasma dynamics can be described by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In many high-energy astrophysical settings, such as the interior dynamics of magnetized stars, the ideal GRMHD approximation, in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Sara Azizi , Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter

Recent years have seen a significant progress in the development of general relativistic codes for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics in spacetimes with high and dynamical curvature. These codes are valuable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a new numerical tool for solving the special relativistic ideal MHD equations that is based on the combination of the following three key features: (i) a one-step ADER discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme that allows for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Olindo Zanotti , Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernovas, compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang

The relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) set of equations has recently seen increased use in astrophysical computations. Even so, RMHD codes remain fragile. The reconstruction can sometimes yield superluminal velocities in certain parts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Jinho Kim

We present a method for general relativistic smoothed particle hydrodynamics (GRSPH), based on an entropy-conservative form of the general relativistic hydrodynamic equations for a perfect fluid. We aim to replace approximate treatments of…

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General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations represent a fundamental tool to probe various underlying mechanisms at play during binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star (NS) - black hole (BH) mergers. Contemporary…

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We present an update of the General-relativistic multigrid numerical (Gmunu) code, a parallelized, multi-dimensional curvilinear, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code with an efficient non-linear cell-centred multigrid (CCMG)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

The paper presents two contributions in the context of the numerical simulation of magnetized fluid dynamics. First, we show how to extend the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with an inbuilt magnetic field divergence cleaning…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Dominik Derigs , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Marvin Bohm

We describe a numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference scheme on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

We construct a relativistic resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (RRMHD) numerical simulation code for high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We split the system of differential equations into two parts, a non-stiff and a stiff part. For the non-stiff…

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