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In this work, we present MHDEnzo, the extension of the cosmological code Enzo to include the effects magnetic fields through the ideal MHD approximation. We use a higher order Godunov Riemann solver for the computation of interface fluxes.…

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This report describes a new magnetohydrodynamic numerical model based on a hexagonal spherical geodesic grid. The model is designed to simulate astrophysical flows of partially ionized plasmas around a central compact object, such as a star…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Florinski , X. Guo , D. S. Balsara , C. Meyer

We extend the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of Athena++ to incorporate radiation. The intensity field in each finite-volume cell is discretized in angle, with explicit transport in both space and angle…

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The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation process in molecular clouds. For this reason, modern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Maya A. Petkova , Bert Vandenbroucke , Ian A. Bonnell , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We present Horizon, a new graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated code to solve the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in a given spacetime. We evaluate the code in several test cases, including magnetized Riemann…

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A cosmological hydrodynamic code is described, which includes a routine to compute cosmic ray acceleration and transport in a simplified way. The routine was designed to follow explicitly diffusive acceleration at shocks, and second-order…

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The numerical simulation of the physical systems has become in recent years a fundamental tool to perform analyses and predictions in several application fields, spanning from industry to the academy. As far as large scale simulations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Giovanni Isotton , Matteo Frigo , Nicolò Spiezia , Carlo Janna

One of the main challenges in the numerical modeling of binary neutron-star (BNS) mergers is long-term simulations of the post-merger remnant over timescales of the order of seconds. When this modeling includes all the aspects of complex…

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The study of the interaction between solid objects and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids is of great importance in physics as consequence of the significant phenomena generated, such as planets interacting with stellar wind produced by their…

Building a self-gravitating hydrodynamic code as a combination of a hydrodynamic solver and a gravity solver is discussed. We show that straightforward combining those two solvers generally leads to a code that does not conserve energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Edmund Bertschinger

In this paper a characteristics-based open boundary condition (CBC) is proposed for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system of equations. The algorithm is carefully designed and implemented in the context of a high-order flux reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunlei Liang

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total…

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We present MHDuet, an open source evolution code for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with neutrino transport. The code solves the full set of Einstein equations coupled to a relativistic, magnetized fluid with an M1 neutrino…

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We present the publicly available moving-mesh hydrodynamics code Sprout. Sprout solves the equations of ideal hydrodynamics on an expanding Cartesian mesh. The expanding mesh can follow fluid outflows for several orders of magnitude with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architecture compared to traditional central processing units (CPUs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Christoph M. Schäfer , Sven Riecker , Thomas I. Maindl , Roland Speith , Samuel Scherrer , Wilhelm Kley

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

Computational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for space physics has become an essential area in understanding the multiscale dynamics of geophysical and astrophysical plasma processes, partially motivated by the lack of space data. Full MHD…

Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a hybrid Radiation-Hydrodynamics (RHD) scheme that couples an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

The new era of multimessenger astrophysics requires the capability of studying different aspects of the evolution of compact objects. In particular, the merger of neutron star binaries is a strong source of gravitational waves and…

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