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We describe a new scheme for evolving the equations of force-free electrodynamics, the vanishing-inertia limit of magnetohydrodynamics. This pseudospectral code uses global orthogonal basis function expansions to take accurate spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Kyle Parfrey , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Lam Hui

We introduce a new GPU-accelerated general-relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GR-MHD) code based on HARM which we call cuHARM. The code is written in CUDA-C and uses OpenMP to parallelize multi-GPU setups. Our code allows us to run high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er , Guoqiang Zhang , BinBin Zhang , Benjamin Pevzner

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Masaru Shibata

Force-free electrodynamics (FFE) is a closed set of equations for the electromagnetic field of a magnetically dominated plasma. There are strong arguments for the existence of force-free plasmas near pulsars and active black holes, but FFE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Samuel E. Gralla , Nabil Iqbal

We have added support for realistic, microphysical, finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino physics via a leakage scheme to IllinoisGRMHD, an open-source GRMHD code for dynamical spacetimes in the Einstein Toolkit. These…

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

In this paper we present a major update to the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code cuHARM, which adds fully covariant treatment of radiation transport and the subsequent radiation backreaction on the dynamics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 John Wallace , Damien Bégué , Asaf Pe'er

We introduce Gradient Particle Magnetohydrodynamics (GPM), a new Lagrangian method for magnetohydrodynamics based on gradients corrected for the locally disordered particle distribution. The development of a numerical code for MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jason L. Maron , Gregory G. Howes

The dynamics of highly magnetized plasmas in extreme astrophysical environments are effectively modeled by Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE), a framework essential for studying objects like neutron stars and accreting black holes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Rakshak Adhikari

The accurate modelling of astrophysical scenarios involving compact objects and magnetic fields, such as the collapse of rotating magnetized stars to black holes or the phenomenology of gamma-ray bursts, requires the solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Giacomazzo , L. Rezzolla

We present a new general relativistic hydrodynamics code specifically designed to study magneto-rotational, relativistic, stellar core collapse. The code is an extension of an existing (and thoroughly tested) hydrodynamics code, which has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font

We have developed a hybrid code GMEC: Gyro-kinetic Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Energetic-particle Code that can numerically simulate energetic particle-driven Alfv\'en eigenmodes and energetic particle transport in tokamak plasmas. In order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Z. Y. Liu , P. Y. Jiang , S. Y. Liu , L. L. Zhang , G. Y. Fu

A new magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code based on initial value approach, GMEC_I, has been developed for simulating various MHD physics in tokamak plasmas, as the MHD foundation of the gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code (GMEC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 P. Y. Jiang , Z. Y. Liu , S. Y. Liu , J. Bao , G. Y. Fu

The derivation of electromagnetic gyrofluid equations is made systematic by using the Hermite polynomial form of the underlying delta-f gyrokinetic distribution function. The gyrokinetic free-energy functional is explicitly used to set up…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Bruce D. Scott

We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

In this thesis different numerical methods, as well as applications of the methods to a number of current problems in relativistic astrophysics, are presented. In the first part the theoretical foundation and numerical implementation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Troels Haugboelle

Interpreting multimessenger signals from neutron stars and black holes requires reliable general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations across rapidly evolving high-performance computing platforms, yet key algorithms are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Samuel Cupp , Leonardo R. Werneck , Terrence Pierre Jacques , Samuel Tootle , Zachariah B. Etienne

We describe an implicit general relativistic hydrodynamics code. The evolution equations are formulated in comoving coordinates. A conservative finite differencing of the Einstein equations is outlined, and artificial viscosity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Matthias Liebendoerfer , Stephan Rosswog , Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Iharm3D is an open-source C code for simulating black hole accretion systems in arbitrary stationary spacetimes using ideal general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). It is an implementation of the HARM ("High Accuracy Relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Vedant Dhruv , Benjamin R. Ryan , Joshua C. Dolence , Sean M. Ressler , Charles F. Gammie

Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel