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We present a new numerical code designed to solve the Einstein field equations for axisymmetric spacetimes. The long term goal of this project is to construct a code that will be capable of studying many problems of interest in axisymmetry,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. W. Choptuik , E. W. Hirschmann , S. L. Liebling , F. Pretorius

Current state-of-the-art simulations of accretion flows onto black holes require a significant level of numerical sophistication, in order to allow the three-dimensional modelling of relativistic magnetised plasma in a regime of strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-09 Matteo Bugli

We present the extension of GR-Athena++ to general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) for applications to neutron star spacetimes. The new solver couples the constrained transport implementation of Athena++ to the Z4c formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 William Cook , Boris Daszuta , Jacob Fields , Peter Hammond , Simone Albanesi , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Boris Daszuta , William Cook

We study the performance behaviour of a seismic simulation using the ExaHyPE engine with a specific focus on memory characteristics and energy needs. ExaHyPE combines dynamically adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) with ADER-DG. It is…

We present a finite-volume, genuinely 4th-order accurate numerical method for solving the equations of resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (Res-RMHD) in Cartesian coordinates. In our formulation, the magnetic field is evolved in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Andrea Mignone , Vittoria Berta , Marco Rossazza , Matteo Bugli , Giancarlo Mattia , Luca Del Zanna , Lorenzo Pareschi

We have developed a new three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code, RAISHIN, using a conservative, high resolution shock-capturing scheme. The numerical fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, & van Leer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Shinji Koide , Philip Hardee , Gerald J. Fishman

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

The development of a high performance PDE solver requires the combined expertise of interdisciplinary teams with respect to application domain, numerical scheme and low-level optimization. In this paper, we present how the ExaHyPE engine…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jean-Matthieu Gallard , Lukas Krenz , Leonhard Rannabauer , Anne Reinarz , Michael Bader

We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. Like the fixed-spacetime GRMHD solver, we use standard finite-volume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Jacob Fields , Hengrui Zhu , David Radice , James M. Stone , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Boris Daszuta

Recent developments in compact object astrophysics, especially the discovery of merging neutron stars by LIGO, the imaging of the black hole in M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and high precision astrometry of the Galactic Center at…

We have developed a numerical code to study the evolution of self-gravitating matter in dynamic black hole axisymmetric spacetimes in general relativity. The matter fields are evolved with a high-resolution shock-capturing scheme that uses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Brandt , J. A. Font , J. M. Ibanez , J. Masso , E. Seidel

We present preliminary results in our long-term project of studying the evolution of matter in a dynamical spacetime. To achieve this, we have developed a new code to evolve axisymmetric initial data sets corresponding to a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Brandt , J. A. Font

Developing and redesigning astrophysical, cosmological, and space plasma numerical codes for existing and next-generation accelerators is critical for enabling large-scale simulations. To address these challenges, the SPACE Center of…

The profound comprehension of the evolution and phenomenology of an Active Galactic Nucleus requires an accurate exploration of the dynamics of the magnetized gaseous disk surrounding the massive black hole in the centre. Many numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Giacomo Fedrigo , Alessandro Lupi

A new algorithm for solving the general relativistic MHD equations is described in this paper. We design our scheme to incorporate black hole excision with smooth boundaries, and to simplify solving the combined Einstein and MHD equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Neilsen , Eric W Hirschmann , R Steven Millward

Hot, diffuse, relativistic plasmas such as sub-Eddington black hole accretion flows are expected to be collisionless, yet are commonly modeled as a fluid using ideal general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). Dissipative effects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Mani Chandra , Francois Foucart , 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

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors such as Cosmic Explorer, the Einstein Telescope, and LISA, demand highly accurate and extensive gravitational wave (GW) catalogs to faithfully extract physical parameters from observed signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Samuel D. Tootle , Leonardo R. Werneck , Thiago Assumpção , Terrence Pierre Jacques , Zachariah B. Etienne

In the Exa-Dune project we have developed, implemented and optimised numerical algorithms and software for the scalable solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on future exascale systems exhibiting a heterogeneous massively…