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Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

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This paper presents a new code for performing multidimensional radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) simulations on parallel computers involving anisotropic radiation fields and nonequilibrium effects. The radiation evolution modules described here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. Hayes , Michael L. Norman

We introduce the RHDLPP, a flux-limited multigroup radiation hydrodynamics numerical code designed for simulating laser-produced plasmas in diverse environments. The code bifurcates into two packages: RHDLPP-LTP for low-temperature plasmas…

We present a numerical code for radiation hydrodynamics designed as a module for the freely available PLUTO code. We adopt a gray approximation and include radiative transfer following a two-moment approach by imposing the M1 closure to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Hubert Klahr , Mario Flock , Andrea Mignone

We present the first two-dimensional general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse and explosion with the CoCoNuT hydrodynamics code in combination with the VERTEX solver for energy-dependent, three-flavor neutrino…

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This paper describes a multidimensional hydrodynamic code which can be used for the studies of relativistic astrophysical flows. The code solves the special relativistic hydrodynamic equations as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez , Refik Kayali

Implementation details and test cases of a newly developed hydrodynamic code, AMRA, are presented. The numerical scheme exploits the adaptive mesh refinement technique coupled to modern high-resolution schemes which are suitable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomek Plewa , Ewald Mueller

We describe a newly developed hydrodynamic code for studying accretion disk processes. The numerical method uses a finite volume, nonlinear, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme to capture shocks and control spurious oscillations. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 L. R. Mudryk , N. W. Murray

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

We present a formulation for multigroup radiation hydrodynamics that is correct to order $O(v/c)$ using the comoving-frame approach and the flux-limited diffusion approximation. We describe a numerical algorithm for solving the system,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 W. Zhang , L. Howell , A. Almgren , A. Burrows , J. Dolence , J. Bell

We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular and low-memory smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for astrophysical applications in three dimensions. The code has been developed with a…

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

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

A numerical scheme is described for including radiation in multi-dimensional general-relativistic conservative fluid dynamics codes. In this method, a covariant form of the M1 closure scheme is used to close the radiation moments, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-16 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Yucong Zhu

Realistic numerical simulations, i.e., those that make minimal use of ad hoc modeling, are essential for understanding the complex turbulent dynamics of the interiors and atmospheres of the Sun and other stars and the basic mechanisms of…

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We describe a Godunov-type magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code based on the Miyoshi and Kusano (2005) solver which can be used to solve various astrophysical hydrodynamic and MHD problems. The energy equation is in the form of entropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , P. S. Lii , M. L. Comins , S. Dyda , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

The radiation hydrodynamics equations for smoothed particle hydrodynamics are derived by operator splitting the radiation and hydrodynamics terms, including necessary terms for material motion, and discretizing each of the sets of equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Brody R. Bassett , J. Michael Owen , Thomas A. Brunner

Modeling core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) with neutrino transport in three dimensions (3D) requires tremendous computing resources and some level of approximation. We present a first comparison study of CCSNe in 3D with different physics…

In this paper we present a full general relativistic one-dimensional hydro-code which incorporates a modern high-resolution shock-capturing algorithm, with an approximate Riemann solver, for the correct modelling of formation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jose V. Romero , Jose M. Ibanez , Jose M. Marti , Juan A. Miralles

In an attempt to investigate the structures of ultra-relativistic jets injected into the intracluster medium (ICM) and the associated flow dynamics, such as shocks, velocity shear, and turbulence, we have developed a new special…

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