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We present the first hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the new moving mesh code AREPO and compare the results with GADGET simulations based on a traditional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We discuss cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation performed with the new moving-mesh code AREPO, which promises higher accuracy compared with the traditional SPH technique that has been widely employed for this problem.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dusan Keres , Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We implement general relativistic hydrodynamics in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We also couple a solver for the Einstein field equations employing the conformal flatness approximation. The implementation is validated by evolving isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Georgios Lioutas , Andreas Bauswein , Theodoros Soultanis , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Friedrich K. Röpke

We present a new numerical algorithm to solve the recently derived equations of two-moment cosmic ray hydrodynamics (CRHD). The algorithm is implemented as a module in the moving mesh Arepo code. Therein, the anisotropic transport of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor

In weakly collisional, strongly magnetised plasmas such as the intracluster medium (ICM), hot accretion flows and the solar corona, the transport of heat and momentum occurs primarily along magnetic field lines. In this paper we present a…

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysics on a wide variety of scales, ranging from the Sun and compact objects to galaxies and galaxy clusters. Here we discuss a novel implementation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruediger Pakmor , Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel

We present a new comprehensive model of the physics of galaxy formation designed for large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the moving mesh code AREPO. Our model includes primordial and metal line cooling with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Debora Sijacki , Paul Torrey , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

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

Accurate numerical solutions of the equations of hydrodynamics play an ever more important role in many fields of astrophysics. In this work, we reinvestigate the accuracy of the moving-mesh code \textsc{Arepo} and show how its convergence…

We describe a major update to the public GIZMO code. GIZMO has been used in simulations of cosmology; galaxy and star formation and evolution; black hole accretion and feedback; proto-stellar disk dynamics and planet formation; fluid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Philip F. Hopkins

We introduce AREPO-RT, a novel radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code AREPO. Our method solves the moment-based radiative transfer equations using the M1 closure relation. We achieve second order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Rahul Kannan , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Ryan McKinnon , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We present the implementation of an anisotropic viscosity solver within the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) framework of the TreeSPH code OpenGadget3. The solver models anisotropic viscous transport along magnetic field lines following the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini , John A. ZuHone , Klaus Dolag

Cosmic rays (CRs) play an important role in many astrophysical systems. Acting on plasma scales to galactic environments, CRs are usually modeled as a fluid, using the CR energy density as the evolving quantity. This method comes with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Matthias Weber , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

We present a novel implementation of an extremum preserving anisotropic diffusion solver for thermal conduction on the unstructured moving Voronoi mesh of the AREPO code. The method relies on splitting the one-sided facet fluxes into normal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Rahul Kannan , Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor , Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger

In certain astrophysical systems the commonly employed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation breaks down. Here, we introduce novel explicit and implicit numerical schemes of ohmic resistivity terms in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-09 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Rahul Kannan , Philip Mocz , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Numerous formulations of finite volume schemes for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations exist, but in the majority of cases they have been developed for structured and stationary meshes. In many applications, more flexible mesh geometries…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Diego Muñoz , Volker Springel , Robert Marcus , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

We investigate the nature of gas accretion onto haloes and galaxies at z=2 using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run with the moving mesh code AREPO. Implementing a Monte Carlo tracer particle scheme to determine the origin and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-30 Dylan Nelson , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Many physical systems exhibit nonlocal spatiotemporal behaviors described by integro-differential equations (IDEs). Classical methods for solving IDEs require repeatedly evaluating convolution integrals, whose cost increases quickly with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Farinaz Mostajeran , Aruzhan Tleubek , Salah A Faroughi

We present here RICH, a state of the art 2D hydrodynamic code based on Godunov's method, on an unstructured moving mesh (the acronym stands for Racah Institute Computational Hydrodynamics). This code is largely based on the code AREPO. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Almog Yalinewich , Elad Steinberg , Re'em Sari
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