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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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Jeongbhin Seo , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Seungwoo Ha , Indranil Chattopadhyay

We present a new fourth-order, finite-volume hydrodynamics code named Apsara. The code employs a high-order, finite-volume method for mapped coordinates with extensions for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. Apsara can handle arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Annop Wongwathanarat , Hannes Grimm-Strele , Ewald Müller

A high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in multiple space dimensions is presented. A high order one-step time discretization is achieved using a local space-time discontinuous Galerkin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-27 Olindo Zanotti , Michael Dumbser , Arturo Hidalgo , Dinshaw Balsara

A new cosmological multidimensional hydrodynamic and N-body code based on an Adaptive Mesh Refinement scheme is described and tested. The hydro part is based on modern high-resolution shock-capturing techniques, whereas N-body approach is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vicent Quilis

We present a robust and accurate numerical method for the anisotropic diffusion equation in curvilinear coordinates. This study extends the recent work [Muir et al., Computer Physics Communications, 2025] for solving the anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Dean Muir , Kenneth Duru , Stuart Hudson , Matthew Hole

The physics of cosmic rays (CR) is a promising candidate for explaining the driving of galactic winds and outflows. Recent galaxy formation simulations have demonstrated the need for active CR transport either in the form of diffusion or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-19 Ruediger Pakmor , Christoph Pfrommer , Christine M. Simpson , Volker Springel

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play an important role in galaxy evolution. We study their effect when coupled to other important sources of feedback, namely supernovae and stellar radiation, by including CR anisotropic diffusion and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-27 Marion Farcy , Joakim Rosdahl , Yohan Dubois , Jérémy Blaizot , Sergio Martin-Alvarez

We propose an explicit-implicit scheme for numerically solving Special Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamic (RRHD) equations, which ensures a conservation of total energy and momentum (matter and radiation). In our scheme, 0th and 1st moment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tomida

Numerical simulations including magnetic fields have become important in many fields of astrophysics. Evolution of magnetic fields by the constrained transport algorithm preserves magnetic divergence to machine precision, and thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jason Maron , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Jeffrey Oishi

Thanks to space-borne experiments of cosmic-ray (CR) detection, such as the AMS and PAMELA missions in low-Earth orbit, or the Voyager-1 spacecraft in the interstellar space, a large collection of multi-channel and time-resolved CR data has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini , Miguel Orcinha

We present a new hybrid semi-implicit finite volume / finite element numerical scheme for the solution of incompressible and weakly compressible media. From the continuum mechanics model proposed by Godunov, Peshkov and Romenski (GPR), we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Saray Busto , Laura Río-Martín

We propose a new second-order asymptotic-preserving (AP) dual formulation finite-volume (DF-FV) method for the thermal rotating shallow water (TRSW) equations. The TRSW system models geophysical flows characterized by horizontal…

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The radiation magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) system couples the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations with a gray radiation transfer equation. The main challenge is that the radiation travels at the speed of light while the magnetohydrodynamics…

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Numerical simulations shed light onto earlier not trackable problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. They allowed to test the predictions of different models and choose the correct ones. Inevitably, this progress calls for revisions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-27 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

Cosmic-ray (CR) feedback is widely recognized as a key regulator of galaxy formation. After being accelerated at supernova remnant shocks, CRs propagate through the interstellar medium (ISM), establishing smooth large-scale distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby

Finite volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws require a numerical intercell flux. In one spatial dimension the numerical flux can be successfully obtained by solving (exactly or approximately) Riemann problems that are introduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Wasilij Barsukow , Jonathan Hohm , Christian Klingenberg , Philip L. Roe

We have developed a hybrid code GMEC: Gyro-kinetic Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Energetic-particle Code that can numerically simulate energetic particle-driven Alfv\'en eigenmodes and energetic particle transport in tokamak plasmas. In order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Z. Y. Liu , P. Y. Jiang , S. Y. Liu , L. L. Zhang , G. Y. Fu

We develop a numerical hydrodynamics code using a pseudo-Newtonian formulation that uses the weak field approximation for the geometry, and a generalized source term for the Poisson equation that takes into account relativistic effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinho Kim , Hee Il Kim , Matthew William Choptuik , Hyung Mok Lee

We present a meshless method for magnetohydrodynamics by evolving the vector potential of magnetic fields. A novel scheme and numerical techniques are developed to restrict the divergence of magnetic field, based on the Meshless Finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Xiongbiao Tu , Qiao Wang , Haonan Zheng , Liang Gao
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