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We present a new general relativistic (GR) code for hydrodynamic supernova simulations with neutrino transport in spherical and azimuthal symmetry (1D/2D). The code is a combination of the CoCoNuT hydro module, which is a Riemann-solver…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Mueller , H. -Th. Janka , H. Dimmelmeier

We describe a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. High order finite difference WENO schemes are designed for problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Meng-Ping Zhang

Many astrophysical hydrodynamics simulations must account for gravity, and evaluating the gravitational field at the positions of all resolution elements can incur significant cost. Typical algorithms update the gravitational field at the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Michael Y. Grudić

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

We have carried out a set of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations that follow galaxy formation in $f(R)$ modified gravity models. Our simulations employ the Illustris-TNG full physics model and a new modified gravity solver in the AREPO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Christian Arnold , Matteo Leo , Baojiu Li

We present the first hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the new moving mesh code AREPO and compare the results with GADGET simulations based on a traditional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

In this paper we describe an adaptive softening length formalism for collisionless N-body and self-gravitating Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations which conserves momentum and energy exactly. This means that spatially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

Several extensions of the standard cosmological model include scalar fields as new degrees of freedom in the underlying gravitational theory. A particular class of these scalar field theories include screening mechanisms intended to hide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-04 Claudio Llinares , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinho Kim , Hee Il Kim , Matthew William Choptuik , Hyung Mok Lee

This paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

We present a hydrodynamical code for cosmological simulations which uses the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) to follow the dynamics of gas component and an N-body Particle-Mesh algorithm for the evolution of collisionless component. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Claudio Gheller , Ornella Pantano , Lauro Moscardini

High precision Superconductivity Gravity Gradiometers (SGG) are powerful tools for relativistic experiments. In this paper, we work out the tidal signals in non-dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity, which could be measured by orbiting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-23 Li-E Qiang , Peng Xu

We present a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. WENO is a higher order accurate finite difference scheme designed for problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Meng-Ping Zhang

We present a new open-source axisymmetric general relativistic hydrodynamics code Gmunu (General-relativistic multigrid numerical solver) which uses a multigrid method to solve the elliptic metric equations in the conformally flat condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-24 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Lap-Ming Lin , Tjonnie Guang-Feng Li

There is great interest in numerical relativity simulations involving matter due to the likelihood that binary compact objects involving neutron stars will be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, as well as to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

We present a new multi-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamics code for massive stellar core-collapse in full general relativity (GR). Employing an M1 analytical closure scheme, we solve spectral neutrino transport of the radiation energy and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Takami Kuroda , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

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 introduce CRK-HACC, an extension of the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC), to resolve gas hydrodynamics in large-scale structure formation simulations of the universe. The new framework couples the HACC gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Nicholas Frontiere , J. D. Emberson , Michael Buehlmann , Joseph Adamo , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler