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The Athena MHD code has been extended to integrates the motion of particles coupled with the gas via aerodynamic drag, in order to study the dynamics of gas and solids in protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetesimals. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) code integrated into the Athena++ framework. It treats energetic particles as in conventional PIC codes while the rest of thermal plasmas are treated as background fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Xiaochen Sun , Xue-Ning Bai

The design and implementation of a new framework for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) calculations is described. It is intended primarily for applications in astrophysical fluid dynamics, but its flexible and modular design enables its use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 James M. Stone , Kengo Tomida , Christopher J. White , Kyle G. Felker

We present the extension of the differentiable hydrodynamics code, diffhydro, enabling scalable PDE-constrained inference and integrated hybrid physics-ML models for a wide range of astrophysical applications. New physics additions include…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku

We present a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code integrated into the Athena++ framework. Improving upon the techniques used in most GRMHD codes, ours allows the use of advanced, less diffusive Riemann solvers, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Christopher J. White , James M. Stone , Charles F. Gammie

We describe the implementation of sophisticated numerical techniques for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations in the Athena++ code framework. Improvements over many existing codes include the use of advanced Riemann solvers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-25 Christopher J. White

The implementation of a new particle module describing the physics of dust grains coupled to the gas via drag forces is the subject of this work. The proposed particle-gas hybrid scheme has been designed to work in Cartesian as well as in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Mignone , M. Flock , B. Vaidya

We describe a module for the Athena code that solves the gray equations of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD), based on the first two moments of the radiative transfer equation. We use a combination of explicit Godunov methods to advance the gas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 M. Aaron Skinner , Eve C. Ostriker

A method for implementing cylindrical coordinates in the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code is described. The extension follows the approach of Athena's original developers and has been designed to alter the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron Skinner , Eve Ostriker

We describe the implementation of a module for the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code which solves the time-independent, multi-frequency radiative transfer (RT) equation on multidimensional Cartesian simulation domains, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Yan-Fei Jiang

Chemistry plays a key role in many aspects of astrophysical fluids. Atoms and molecules are agents for heating and cooling, determine the ionization fraction, serve as observational tracers, and build the molecular foundation of life. We…

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 present a stable and convergent method for studying a system of gas and dust, coupled through viscous drag in both non-stiff and stiff regimes. To account for the effects of dust drag in the update of the fluid quantities, we employ a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Francesco Miniati

We describe a high-order numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver built upon a novel non-linear entropy stable numerical flux function that supports eight travelling wave solutions. By construction the solver conserves mass, momentum,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 Dominik Derigs , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch

We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Boris Daszuta , William Cook

Exascale supercomputing unleashes the potential for simulations of astrophysical systems with unprecedented resolution. Taking full advantage of this computing power requires the development of new algorithms and numerical methods that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 L. Sewanou , G. Laibe , B. Commerçon

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Christopher J. White , Patrick D. Mullen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Viktoriya Morozova , Lizhong Zhang

We present a new particle module of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Piernik code. The original multi-fluid grid code based on the Relaxing Total Variation Diminishing (RTVD) scheme has been extended by addition of dust described within the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Joanna Drążkowska , Michał Hanasz , Kacper Kowalik

We investigate the utility of deep learning for modeling the clustering of particles that are aerodynamically coupled to turbulent fluids. Using a Lagrangian particle module within the Athena++ hydrodynamics code, we simulate the dynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Yan-Mong Chan , Natascha Manger , Yin Li , Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Philip J. Armitage , Shirley Ho

We describe the implementation of multigrid solvers in the Athena++ adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework and their application to the solution of the Poisson equation for self-gravity. The new solvers are built on top of the AMR…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Kengo Tomida , James M. Stone
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