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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

The migration of planets within their nascent protoplanetary disks is a fundamental process that shapes the final architecture of planetary systems. However, studying this phenomenon through direct hydrodynamical simulations is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Ximena S. Ramos , Pablo Benitez-Llambay

Solving the problem of fast eruptive events in magnetically dominated astrophysical plasmas requires the use of particularly well adapted numerical tools. Indeed, the central mechanism based on magnetic reconnection is determined by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Hubert Baty

Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

We describe a high-order numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver built upon a novel non-linear entropy stable numerical flux function that supports eight travelling wave solutions. By construction the solver conserves mass, momentum,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 Dominik Derigs , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch

We modify an existing magnetohydrodynamics algorithm to make it more compatible with a dimensionally-split (DS) framework. It is based on the standard reconstruct-solve-average strategy (using a Riemann solver), and relies on constrained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-17 Hari Sriskantha , Maximilian Ruffert

Exascale supercomputing unleashes the potential for simulations of astrophysical systems with unprecedented resolution. Taking full advantage of this computing power requires the development of new algorithms and numerical methods that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 L. Sewanou , G. Laibe , B. Commerçon

We present the implementation of a three-dimensional, second order accurate Godunov-type algorithm for magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD), in the adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) cosmological code {\tt CHARM}. The algorithm is based on the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Miniati , Daniel F. Martin

In this work we introduce a novel semi-implicit structure-preserving finite-volume/finite-difference scheme for the viscous and resistive equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) based on an appropriate 3-split of the governing PDE system,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Francesco Fambri

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

Hydrodynamics calculations have been successfully used in studies of the bulk properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, particularly of elliptic flow and shear viscosity. However, there are areas (for instance event-by-event simulations for…

We present magneto-hydrodynamic simulation results for heterogeneous systems. Heterogeneous architectures combine high floating point performance many-core units hosted in conventional server nodes. Examples include Graphics Processing…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-11-04 Bijia Pang , Ue-li Pen , Michael Perrone

An efficient numerical code FP3D has been developed to calculate particle orbits and evaluate particle confinement in 3D magnetic fields including stellarators and tokamaks with 3D fields. The magnetic field is either calculated from coils…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 P. Y. Jiang , Z. C. Feng , G. D. Yu , G. Y. Fu

We present a new special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) code capable of handling coexisting ultra-relativistically hot and non-relativistically cold gases. We achieve this by designing a new algorithm for conversion between primitive and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Po-Hsun Tseng , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh

We present a two-dimensional Cartesian code based on high order discontinuous Galerkin methods, implemented to run in parallel over multiple GPUs. A simple planet-disc setup is used to compare the behaviour of our code against the behaviour…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 David A. Velasco-Romero , Maria Han Veiga , Romain Teyssier , Frédéric S. Masset

The special computational challenges of simulating 3-D hydrodynamics in deep stellar interiors are discussed, and numerical algorithmic responses described. Results of recent simulations carried out at scale on the NSF's Blue Waters machine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Paul R. Woodward , Pei-Hung Lin , Huaqing Mao , Robert Andrassy , Falk Herwig

We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael P. Howard , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Arash Nikoubashman

Planet migration is inherently a three-dimensional (3D) problem, because Earth-size planetary cores are deeply embedded in protoplanetary disks. Simulations of these 3D disks remain challenging due to the steep requirement in resolution.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jeffrey Fung , Frederic Masset , Elena Lega , David Velasco

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

We present Horizon, a new graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated code to solve the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in a given spacetime. We evaluate the code in several test cases, including magnetized Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Burkhard Zink