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Performing a stable, long duration simulation of driven MHD turbulence with a high thermal Mach number and a strong initial magnetic field is a challenge to high-order Godunov ideal MHD schemes because of the difficulty in guaranteeing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pak Shing Li , Daniel F. Martin , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

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

Solving the Euler equations of ideal hydrodynamics as accurately and efficiently as possible is a key requirement in many astrophysical simulations. It is therefore important to continuously advance the numerical methods implemented in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-02 Kevin Schaal , Andreas Bauer , Praveen Chandrashekar , Rüdiger Pakmor , Christian Klingenberg , Volker Springel

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

General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have revolutionized our understanding of black hole accretion. Here, we present a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated GRMHD code \hammer{} with multi-faceted optimizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 M. T. P. Liska , K. Chatterjee , D. Issa , D. Yoon , N. Kaaz , A. Tchekhovskoy , D. van Eijnatten , G. Musoke , C. Hesp , V. Rohoza , S. Markoff , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis

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

There is a great need in several areas of astrophysics and space-physics to carry out high order of accuracy, divergence-free MHD simulations on spherical meshes. This requires us to pay careful attention to the interplay between mesh…

We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD and RMHD). The current release exploits, in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mignone , C. Zanni , P. Tzeferacos , B. van Straalen , P. Colella , G. Bodo

Current Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations require algorithms that are highly parallelized and manage memory efficiently. As compute engines grow larger, AMR simulations will require algorithms that achieve new levels of efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jonathan J. Carroll-Nellenback , Brandon Shroyer , Adam Frank , Chen Ding

We present an extension of the massively parallel, GPU native, astrophysical hydrodynamics code Cholla to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Cholla solves the ideal MHD equations in their Eulerian form on a static Cartesian mesh utilizing the Van…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-03 Robert V. Caddy , Evan E. Schneider

Parallel implementation of numerical adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)strategies for solving 3D elastostatic contact mechanics problems is an essential step toward complex simulations that exceed current performance levels. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Alexandre Epalle , Isabelle Ramière , Guillaume Latu , Frédéric Lebon

Fully realizing the potential of multigrid solvers often requires custom algorithms for a given application model, discretizations and even regimes of interest, despite considerable effort from the applied math community to develop fully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Mark F. Adams , Matthew K. Knepley

We present a GPU-accelerated implementation of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solver using directive-based programming with OpenMP target offloading. The solver is integrated into the DISPATCH framework, which organises the computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Michael Haahr , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund , Sven Karlsson , Eloi Martaillé Richard

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

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) phenomena play a pivotal role in the design and operation of nuclear fusion systems, where electrically conducting fluids (such as liquid metals or molten salts employed in reactor blankets) interact with magnetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 M. Lo Verso , C. Introini , E. Cervi , L. Savoldi , J. N. Kutz , A. Cammi

We present a new implementation of the SFUMATO code, called SFUMATO#, for solving self-gravitational radiation hydrodynamics problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) with the CUDA/HIP programming frameworks. The code incorporates a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 Hajime Fukushima , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) enables efficient computation of flows by providing high resolution in critical regions while allowing for coarsening in areas where fine detail is unnecessary. While early AMR software packages relied solely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer Essel , Pierre Sullivan

We present GRaM-X (General Relativistic accelerated Magnetohydrodynamics on AMReX), a new GPU-accelerated dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code which extends the GRMHD capability of Einstein Toolkit to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Steven R. Brandt , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter , Yannick de Graaf

In this work, we introduce two novel reformulations of a recent weakly hyperbolic model for two-phase flow with surface tension. In the model, the tracking of phase boundaries is achieved by using a vector interface field, rather than a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Simone Chiocchetti , Ilya Peshkov , Sergey Gavrilyuk , Michael Dumbser

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