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We present a new numerical algorithm to solve the recently derived equations of two-moment cosmic ray hydrodynamics (CRHD). The algorithm is implemented as a module in the moving mesh Arepo code. Therein, the anisotropic transport of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

Especially in cold and high-density regions, the assumptions of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can break down, making first order non-ideal terms such as Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion as well as the Hall effect important. In this study we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel , Alexander C. Mayer

A description is given of the algorithms implemented in the AstroBEAR adaptive mesh refinement code for ideal magnetohydrodynamics. The code provides several high resolution, shock capturing schemes which are constructed to maintain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Andrew J. Cunningham , Adam Frank , Peggy Varniere , Sorin Mitran , Thomas W. Jones

This work presents the publicly available moving-mesh magnetohydrodynamics code DISCO. DISCO is efficient and accurate at evolving orbital fluid motion in two and three dimensions, especially at high Mach number. DISCO employs a moving-mesh…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paul C. Duffell

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code for the simulation of wave propagation in the solar atmosphere, under the effects of electrical resistivity, but not dominant, and heat transference in a uniform 3D grid. The code is based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Anamaría Navarro , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González

In this work, a simple fourth-order accurate finite volume semi-discrete scheme is introduced to solve astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems on Cartesian meshes. Hydrodynamic quantities like density, momentum and energy are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Prabal Singh Verma , Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Oliver Henze , Wolf-Christian Müller

We design a conservative finite difference scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations that attains high-order accuracy, shock-capturing, and divergence-free condition of the magnetic field. The scheme interpolates pointwise physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Takashi Minoshima , Takahiro Miyoshi , Yosuke Matsumoto

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysics on a wide variety of scales, ranging from the Sun and compact objects to galaxies and galaxy clusters. Here we discuss a novel implementation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruediger Pakmor , Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel

The modification of the celebrated Yee scheme from Maxwell equations to magnetohydrodynamics is often referred to as the constrained transport approach. Constrained transport can be viewed as a sort of predictor-corrector method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-17 James A. Rossmanith

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 present a single step, second-order accurate Godunov scheme for ideal MHD which is an extension of the method described by Gardiner & Stone (2005) to three dimensions. This algorithm combines the corner transport upwind (CTU) method of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas A. Gardiner , James M. Stone

Modern astrophysical simulations aim to accurately model an ever-growing array of physical processes, including the interaction of fluids with magnetic fields, under increasingly stringent performance and scalability requirements driven by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 Thomas Guillet , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

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

In this paper, we utilize the maximum-principle-preserving flux limiting technique, originally designed for high order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) methods for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws, to develop a class of high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Andrew J. Christlieb , Yuan Liu , Qi Tang , Zhengfu Xu

We present a novel implementation of a genuinely $4^{\rm th}$-order accurate finite volume scheme for multidimensional classical and special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) based on the constrained transport (CT) formalism. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 Vittoria Berta , Andrea Mignone , Matteo Bugli , Giancarlo Mattia

This paper proposes and analyzes a robust and efficient second-order positivity-preserving constrained transport (PPCT) scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on non-staggered Cartesian meshes. The PPCT scheme ensures two critical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Dongwen Pang , Kailiang Wu

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

Radiation is crucial not only for observing astrophysical objects, but also for transporting energy and momentum. However, accurate on-the-fly radiation transport in astrophysical simulations is challenging and computationally expensive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Jing-Ze Ma , Rüdiger Pakmor , Stephen Justham , Selma E. de Mink

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…