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We present a numerical solver for plasma dynamics simulations in Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) approximation in one, two and three dimensions. We consider both isotropic and anisotropic thermal pressure cases, where a general gyrotropic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Marek Strumik , Krzysztof Stasiewicz

(Abridged) We describe a new algorithm for solving the coupled frequency-integrated transfer equation and the equations of magnetohydrodynamics when the light-crossing time is only marginally shorter than dynamical timescales. The transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-24 Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis

The paper describes an explicit multi-dimensional numerical scheme for Special Relativistic Two-Fluid Magnetohydrodynamics of electron-positron plasma and a suit of test problems. The scheme utilizes Cartesian grid and the third order WENO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Maxim Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov , Vitaly Korolev , Andrey Zankovich

Numerical relativity is central to the investigation of astrophysical sources in the dynamical and strong-field gravity regime, such as binary black hole and neutron star coalescences. Current challenges set by gravitational-wave and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Boris Daszuta , Francesco Zappa , William Cook , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Viktoriya Morozova

We perform a systematic study of the dynamics of dust particles in protoplanetary disks with embedded planets using global 2-D and 3-D inviscid hydrodynamic simulations. Lagrangian particles have been implemented into magnetohydrodynamic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhaohuan Zhu , James M. Stone , Roman R. Rafikov , Xuening Bai

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

In many astrophysical plasmas, the Coulomb collision is insufficient to maintain an isotropic temperature, and the system is driven to the anisotropic regime. In this case, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models with anisotropic pressure are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Hongyang Luo , John G. Lyon , Binzheng Zhang

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Lile Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

In the recent years we have performed various experiments on the collision dynamics of highly porous dust aggregates and although we now have a comprehensive picture of the micromechanics of those aggregates, the macroscopic understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Carsten Güttler , Maya Krause , Ralf J. Geretshauser , Roland Speith , Jürgen Blum

We present an implementation of an adaptive ray tracing (ART) module in the Athena hydrodynamics code that accurately and efficiently handles the radiative transfer involving multiple point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

Dust plays a key role in the evolution of the ISM and its correct modelling in numerical simulations is therefore fundamental. We present a new and self-consistent model that treats grain thermal coupling with the gas, radiation balance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 T. Grassi , S. Bovino , T. Haugboelle , D. R. G. Schleicher

Large scale simulations are a key pillar of modern research and require ever-increasing computational resources. Different novel manycore architectures have emerged in recent years on the way towards the exascale era. Performance…

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mcdust is a parallel simulation code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is written in FORTRAN90 and parallelised with OpenMP. The code models dust collisional evolution and transport in the vertical and radial directions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Nerea Gurrutxaga , Joanna Drążkowska

We describe a new Godunov algorithm for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) that combines a simple, unsplit second order accurate integrator with the constrained transport (CT) method for enforcing the solenoidal constraint on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Kris Beckwith , James M. Stone

Numerical simulation of numerous mm/cm-sized particles embedded in a gaseous disk has become an important tool in the study of planet formation and in understanding the dust distribution in observed protoplanetary disks. However, the mutual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

We adapt a modern scheme of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to our tree N-body/SPH galactic chemodynamics code GCD+. The applied scheme includes imple- mentations of the artificial viscosity switch and artificial thermal conductivity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daisuke Kawata , Takashi Okamoto , Brad K. Gibson , David J. Barnes , Renyue Cen

Turbulence simulation with classical numerical solvers requires high-resolution grids to accurately resolve dynamics. Here we train learned simulators at low spatial and temporal resolutions to capture turbulent dynamics generated at high…

Various radio observations have showed that the hot atmospheres of galaxy clusters are magnetized. However, our understanding of the origin of these magnetic fields, their implications on structure formation and their interplay with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Dolag , F. A. Stasyszyn

We revised the treatment of interstellar dust in the KOSMA-\tau\ PDR model code to achieve a consistent description of the dust-related physics in the code. The detailed knowledge of the dust properties is then used to compute the dust…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-16 M. Röllig , R. Szczerba , V. Ossenkopf , C. Glück

In these proceedings we present recent efforts to understand the energetics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). These studies are carried out in the local (shearing box) approximation…

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