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We consider a gravitational wave oscillating in an initially homogeneous, magnetized fluid. The fluid is perfectly conducting and isentropic, and the magnetic field is initially uniform. We find analytic solutions for the case in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Branson C. Stephens

Modern simulation codes for general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics are all facing a long standing technical problem given by the need to recover fundamental variables from those variables that are evolved in time. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-26 Wolfgang Kastaun , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Riccardo Ciolfi

In this work, we study the classical phase space for the gravitational degrees of freedom along a null ray. We construct gauge-invariant observables localized on a null ray segment that commute with those localized on the complement; thus,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Laurent Freidel , Josh Kirklin

In this paper, we present a new static and time-dependent MagnetoHydroDynamic (MHD) equilibrium code, TokaMaker, for axisymmetric configurations of magnetized plasmas, based on the well-known Grad-Shafranov equation. This code utilizes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 C. Hansen , I. G. Stewart , D. Burgess , M. Pharr , S. Guizzo , F. Logak , A. O. Nelson , C. Paz-Soldan

Einstein's field equation of General Relativity (GR) has been known for over 100 years, yet it remains challenging to solve analytically in strongly relativistic regimes, particularly where there is a lack of a priori symmetry. Numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-25 Katy Clough

We present a new numerical implementation of the general-relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations within the Whisky code. The numerical method adopted exploits the properties of implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Kyriaki Dionysopoulou , Daniela Alic , Carlos Palenzuela , Luciano Rezzolla , Bruno Giacomazzo

We present a new numerical code, ECHO, based on an Eulerian Conservative High Order scheme for time dependent three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) and magnetodynamics (GRMD). ECHO is aimed at providing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Del Zanna , O. Zanotti , N. Bucciantini , P. Londrillo

Systems consisting of spheres rolling on elastic membranes have been used to introduce a core conceptual idea of General Relativity (GR): how curvature guides the movement of matter. However, such schemes cannot accurately represent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Shengkai Li , Hussain N. Gynai , Steven Tarr , Emily Alicea-Muñoz , Pablo Laguna , Gongjie Li , Daniel I. Goldman

We present GRAMSES, a new pipeline for nonlinear cosmological $N$-body simulations in General Relativity (GR). This code adopts the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formalism of GR, with constant mean curvature and minimum distortion gauge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li

We have developed a new computer code, RELDAFNA, to solve the conservative equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) on parallel computers. We have implemented a characteristic-wise, finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Ygal Y. Klein

We present a general procedure to solve numerically the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations within the framework of the 3+1 formalism. The work reported here extends our previous investigation in general relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 L. Anton , O. Zanotti , J. A. Miralles , J. M. Marti , J. M. Ibanez , J. A. Font , J. A. Pons

Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art…

The conformal gravity remarkably boosts our prehension of gravity theories. We find a series of dynamical solutions in the $W^2$-conformal gravity, including generalized Schwarzschild-Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (GSFRW), charged generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Hongsheng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Xin-Zhou Li

In this paper a new approach for constructing \emph{multivariate} Gaussian random fields (GRFs) using systems of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) has been introduced and applied to simulated data and real data. By solving a…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-07-08 Xiangping Hu , Daniel Simpson , Finn Lindgren , Håvard Rue

We present a new numerical algorithm and code, ${\sf GFiRe}$, for solving the non-linear evolution of Abelian gauge fields coupled to complex scalar fields in homogeneous and isotropic spacetimes. We adopt a hybrid approach to solving the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Mustafa A. Amin

We introduce $\texttt{GWFAST}$, a Fisher information matrix $\texttt{Python}$ code that allows easy and efficient estimation of signal-to-noise ratios and parameter measurement errors for large catalogs of resolved sources observed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Mancarella , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

We present GridFF, an efficient method for simulating molecules on rigid substrates, derived from techniques used in protein-ligand docking in biochemistry. By projecting molecule-substrate interactions onto precomputed spatial grids with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Indranil Mal , Milan Kočí , Paolo Nicolini , Prokop Hapala

We present the FARGO3D code, recently publicly released. It is a magnetohydrodynamics code developed with special emphasis on protoplanetary disks physics and planet-disk interactions, and parallelized with MPI. The hydrodynamics algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Frédéric Masset

The software tool GRworkbench is an ongoing project in visual, numerical General Relativity at The Australian National University. Recently, GRworkbench has been significantly extended to facilitate numerical experimentation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 A. Moylan , S. M. Scott , A. C. Searle

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