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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

Accreting black holes (BHs) launch relativistic collimated jets, across many decades in luminosity and mass, suggesting the jet launching mechanism is universal, robust and scale-free. Theoretical models and general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-11 M. T. P. Liska , A. Tchekhovskoy , E. Quataert

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

We study low angular momentum, advective accretion flows around a Kerr black hole within the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in the steady state. By solving the full set of GRMHD equations, we aim to provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Gargi Sen , Debaprasad Maity , Santabrata Das

To fully unlock the scientific potential of upcoming gravitational wave (GW) interferometers, numerical relativity (NR) simulation accuracy will need to be greatly enhanced. We present three infrastructure-agnostic improvements to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-19 Zachariah B. Etienne

Traveling across several order of magnitude in distance, relativistic jets from strong gravity region to asymptotic flat spacetime region are believed to consist of several general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) processes. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Hung-Yi Pu , Masaaki Takahashi

To study phenomena of plasmas around rotating black holes, we have derived a set of 3+1 formalism of generalized general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations. Especially, we investigated general relativistic phenomena with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Shinji Koide

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

We present a sub-grid model that emulates the magnetic dynamo operating in magnetized accretion disks. We have implemented this model in the general relativisic radiation magnetohydrodynamic (GRRMHD) code \koral, using results from local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , David Abarca , Yucong Zhu , Jonathan C. McKinney

Fast, reliable orbital evolutions of compact objects around massive black holes will be needed as input for gravitational wave search algorithms in the data stream generated by the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-06 Sarp Akcay

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

An implicit algorithm for solving the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics in conservative form in three-dimensional axi-symmetry is presented. This algorithm is a direct extension of the pseudo-Newtonian implicit radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ahmad Hujeirat , Max Camenzind , Bernhard W. Keil

KHARMA (an acronym for "Kokkos-based High-Accuracy Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics with Adaptive mesh refinement") is a new open-source code for conducting general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations in stationary spacetimes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Ben S. Prather

We present a series of fully three-dimensional, dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) for a progenitor of zero-age-main-sequence (ZAMS) mass $25\, M_\odot$. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter

We present results of simulations of the spectrum of the accretion flow onto the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A*, generated with a coupling of Monte-Carlo (MC) radiation and general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Guy Hilburn , Edison Liang , Siming Liu , Hui Li

The role of radiation in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion simulations is discussed through axisymmetric simulations of the evolution of an initial torus seeded with a weak magnetic field. The paper compares and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-07 Jean-Pierre De Villiers

We derived one-fluid equations based on a relativistic two-fluid approximation of e$^\pm$ pair plasma and electron-ion plasma to reveal the specific relativistic nature of their behavior. Assuming simple condition on the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-11 Shinji Koide

We present global radiation GRMHD simulations of strongly magnetized accretion onto a spinning, stellar mass black hole at sub-Eddington rates. Using a frequency-dependent Monte Carlo procedure for Compton scattering, we self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Jason Dexter , Nicolas Scepi , Mitchell C. Begelman

We introduce a new, open-source computational general relativity framework for the Wolfram Language called Gravitas, which boasts a number of novel and distinctive features as compared to the many pre-existing computational and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Jonathan Gorard

We present the first three-dimensional, fully general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (3D GRMHD) simulation of a black hole (BH) formed from the collapsed core of a massive star. The ability to self-consistently capture the birth of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Goni Halevi , Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter