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We perform a suite of two- and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the Athena code of the non-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the subsonic, weak magnetic field limit. Focusing the analysis on the non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Greg Salvesen , Kris Beckwith , Jacob B. Simon , Sean M. O'Neill , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present a co-scaling grid formalism and its implementation in the magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++. The formalism relies on flow symmetries in astrophysical problems involving expansion, contraction, and center-of-mass motion. The grid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Roark Habegger , Fabian Heitsch

We study energy dissipation and heating by supersonic MHD turbulence in molecular clouds using Athena, a new higher-order Godunov code. We analyze the dependence of the saturation amplitude, energy dissipation characteristics, power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

We present a new algorithm for simulating two-fluid gas and dust mixtures in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), systematically addressing a number of key issues including the generalised SPH density estimate in multi-fluid systems, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price

We present MDIRK: a Multifluid second-order Diagonally-Implicit Runge-Kutta method to study momentum transfer between gas and an arbitrary number ($N$) of dust species. The method integrates the equations of hydrodynamics with an Implicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Leonardo Krapp , Juan Garrido-Deutelmoser , Pablo Benítez-Llambay , Kaitlin M. Kratter

We present a new algorithm, MULTIGRAIN, for modelling the dynamics of an entire population of small dust grains immersed in gas, typical of conditions that are found in molecular clouds and protoplanetary discs. The MULTIGRAIN method is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Mark A. Hutchison , Daniel J. Price , Guillaume Laibe

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code for the simulation of wave propagation in the solar atmosphere, under the effects of electrical resistivity, but not dominant, and heat transference in a uniform 3D grid. The code is based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Anamaría Navarro , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González

The ideal MHD equations are a central model in astrophysics, and their solution relies upon stable numerical schemes. We present an implementation of a new method, which possesses excellent stability properties. Numerical tests demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Knut Waagan , Christoph Federrath , Christian Klingenberg

We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. Like the fixed-spacetime GRMHD solver, we use standard finite-volume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Jacob Fields , Hengrui Zhu , David Radice , James M. Stone , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Boris Daszuta

We present the extension of GR-Athena++ to general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) for applications to neutron star spacetimes. The new solver couples the constrained transport implementation of Athena++ to the Z4c formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 William Cook , Boris Daszuta , Jacob Fields , Peter Hammond , Simone Albanesi , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

We present a 'two-fluid' implementation of dust in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in the test particle limit. The scheme is able to handle both short and long stopping times and reproduces the short friction time limit, which is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Richard A. Booth , Debora Sijacki , Cathie J. Clarke

We present the formulation, algorithm and numerical tests of the magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) method with particles treated under the guiding center approximation, which we term the MHD-gPIC method, and it is implemented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Zitao Hu , Xue-Ning Bai , Xiaochen Sun

We describe a Godunov-type magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code based on the Miyoshi and Kusano (2005) solver which can be used to solve various astrophysical hydrodynamic and MHD problems. The energy equation is in the form of entropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , P. S. Lii , M. L. Comins , S. Dyda , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

Simulation of the dynamics of dust-gas circumstellar discs is crucial in understanding the mechanisms of planet formation. The dynamics of small grains in the disc is stiffly coupled to the gas, while the dynamics of grown solids is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Olga P. Stoyanovskaya , Tatiana A. Glushko , Nikolay V. Snytnikov , Valeriy N. Snytnikov

Approaches used in modern numerical simulations of the dynamics of dust and gas in circumstellar disks are tested. The gas and dust are treated like interpenetrating continuous media that can exchange momentum. A stiff coupling between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-09 O. P. Stoyanovskaya , E. I. Vorobyov , V. N. Snytnikov

We extend the co-scaling formalism of Habegger & Heitsch (2021) implemented in Athena++ to magneto-hydrodynamics. The formalism relies on flow symmetries in astrophysical problems involving expansion, contraction, and center-of-mass motion.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Fabian Heitsch , Roark Habegger

Global disk simulations provide a powerful tool for investigating accretion and the underlying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). Using them to predict accurately quantities such as stress,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 John F. Hawley , Sherwood A. Richers , Xiaoyue Guan , Julian H. Krolik

In this paper we present the analytic solutions for two test problems involving two-fluid mixtures of dust and gas in an astrophysical context. The solutions provide a means of benchmarking numerical codes designed to simulate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillaume Laibe , Daniel J. Price