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We present a new methodology for simulating self-gravitating general-relativistic fluids. In our approach the fluid is modelled by means of Lagrangian particles in the framework of a general-relativistic (GR) Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 S. Rosswog , P. Diener

We consider the hyperboloidal initial value problem in numerical relativity, motivated by the goal to evolve radiating compact objects such as black hole binaries with a numerical grid that includes null infinity. Unconstrained evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 Alex Vañó-Viñuales , Sascha Husa , David Hilditch

A general covariant extension of Einstein's field equations is considered with a view to Numerical Relativity applications. The basic variables are taken to be the metric tensor and an additional four-vector. The extended field equations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bona , T. Ledvinka , C. Palenzuela , M. Zacek

In this article we first develop novel Rindler-type representations of flat spacetime by demonstrating that the standard hyperbolic transformation is a member of an infinite family of coordinate mappings. We specifically introduce cyclic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Edgar Alejandro León

Computational fluid dynamics is a crucial tool to theoretically explore the cosmos. In the last decade, we have seen a substantial methodological diversification with a number of cross-fertilizations between originally different methods.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Stephan Rosswog

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

We study spherically symmetric spacetimes for matter distributions with isotropic pressures. We generate new exact solutions to the Einstein field equations which also contains isotropic pressures. We develop an algorithm that produces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-23 S. Ngubelanga , S. D. Maharaj

We propose a field theory for the local metric in Stueckelberg--Horwitz--Piron (SHP) general relativity, a framework in which the evolution of classical four-dimensional (4D) worldlines $x^\mu \left( \tau \right)$ ($\mu = 0,1,2,3 $) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Martin Land

In this pedagogically structured article, we describe a generalized harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations in spherical symmetry which is regular at the origin. The generalized harmonic approach has attracted significant attention…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-07 Evgeny Sorkin , Matthew W. Choptuik

This article is the second of two in which we develop a geometric framework for analysing silent and anisotropic big bang singularities. In the present article, we record geometric conclusions obtained by combining the geometric framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Hans Ringström

We present a new formulation of Einstein's equations for an axisymmetric spacetime with vanishing twist in vacuum. We propose a fully constrained scheme and use spherical polar coordinates. A general problem for this choice is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Christian Schell , Oliver Rinne

We propose a new formulation for 3+1 numerical relativity, based on a constrained scheme and a generalization of Dirac gauge to spherical coordinates. This is made possible thanks to the introduction of a flat 3-metric on the spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bonazzola , E. Gourgoulhon , P. Grandclement , J. Novak

We propose two new alternative numerical schemes to solve the coupled Einstein-Euler equations in the Generalized Harmonic formulation. The first one is a finite difference (FD) Central Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (CWENO) scheme on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Stefano Muzzolon , Michael Dumbser , Olindo Zanotti , Elena Gaburro

Here we extend the exploration of significantly super-Chandrasekhar magnetised white dwarfs by numerically computing axisymmetric stationary equilibria of differentially rotating magnetised polytropic compact stars in general relativity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-02 Sathyawageeswar Subramanian , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We present an efficient numerical code based on spectral methods to integrate the field equations of general Robinson-Trautmann spacetimes. The most natural basis functions for the spectral expansion of the metric functions are spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-10 H. P. de Oliveira , E. L. Rodrigues , J. E. F. Skea

Excision techniques are used in order to deal with black holes in numerical simulations of Einstein equations and consist in removing a topological sphere containing the physical singularity from the numerical domain, applying instead…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-27 Isabel Cordero-Carrión , Nicolas Vasset , Jérôme Novak , José Luis Jaramillo

This is the second in a series of papers describing a 3+1 computational scheme for the numerical simulation of dynamic black hole spacetimes. We discuss the numerical time-evolution of a given black-hole-containing initial data slice in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Thornburg

We present the first stable dynamical numerical evolutions of the Einstein equations in terms of a conformally rescaled metric on hyperboloidal hypersurfaces extending to future null infinity. Axisymmetry is imposed in order to reduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 Oliver Rinne

In this paper, we study the geodesic motion in spherically symmetric electro-vacuum Euclidean solutions of the Einstein equation. There are two kinds of such solutions: the Euclidean Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m (ERN) metrics, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Arthur Garnier

We present a new open-source axisymmetric general relativistic hydrodynamics code Gmunu (General-relativistic multigrid numerical solver) which uses a multigrid method to solve the elliptic metric equations in the conformally flat condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-24 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Lap-Ming Lin , Tjonnie Guang-Feng Li