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We report on recent upgrades to our general relativistic radiation-magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++, which expands the two-moment, $\bf{M}_1$, radiation treatment from grey to multi-frequency transport, including Doppler and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile

We present the derivation of hydrodynamical equations for a perfect fluid in General Relativity, within the 3+1 decomposition of spacetime framework, using only primitive variables. Primitive variables are opposed to conserved variables, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 Gaël Servignat , Jerome Novak , Isabel Cordero-Carrión

This work presents the publicly available moving-mesh magnetohydrodynamics code DISCO. DISCO is efficient and accurate at evolving orbital fluid motion in two and three dimensions, especially at high Mach number. DISCO employs a moving-mesh…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Paul C. Duffell

In certain astrophysical systems the commonly employed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation breaks down. Here, we introduce novel explicit and implicit numerical schemes of ohmic resistivity terms in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-09 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Rahul Kannan , Philip Mocz , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

An algorithm for simulating self-gravitating cosmological astrophysical fluids is presented. The advantages include a large dynamic range, parallelizability, high resolution per grid element and fast execution speed. The code is based on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ue-Li Pen

We have developed a new three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code, RAISHIN, using a conservative, high resolution shock-capturing scheme. The numerical fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, & van Leer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Shinji Koide , Philip Hardee , Gerald J. Fishman

Active galactic nuclei, x-ray binaries, pulsars, and gamma-ray bursts are all believed to be powered by compact objects surrounded by relativistic plasma flows driving phenomena such as accretion, winds, and jets. These flows are often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

We present a new three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamic evolution scheme coupled to dynamical spacetime evolutions which is capable of efficiently simulating stellar collapse, isolated neutron stars, black hole formation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-23 C. Reisswig , R. Haas , C. D. Ott , E. Abdikamalov , P. Moesta , D. Pollney , E. Schnetter

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler

The new era of multimessenger astrophysics requires the capability of studying different aspects of the evolution of compact objects. In particular, the merger of neutron star binaries is a strong source of gravitational waves and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Federico Cipolletta , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Bruno Giacomazzo , Riccardo Ciolfi

We present a systematic derivation of relativistic lattice kinetic equations for finite-mass particles, reaching close to the zero-mass ultra-relativistic regime treated in the previous literature. Starting from an expansion of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 A. Gabbana , M. Mendoza , S. Succi , R. Tripiccione

This paper describes a multidimensional hydrodynamic code which can be used for studies of relativistic astrophysical flows. The code solves the special relativistic hydrodynamic equations as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Dongsu Ryu

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

Numerical simulations have become a necessary tool to describe the complex interactions among the different processes involved in galaxy formation and evolution, unfeasible via an analytic approach. The last decade has seen a great effort…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Alessandro Lupi , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk

The characteristic decomposition for GRMHD is not known in a form useful for current numerical simulations. This prevents us from using the most accurate known computational methods, such as full-wave Riemann solvers. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Saul A. Teukolsky

We present a new three-dimensional general relativistic hydrodynamics code, the Whisky code. This code incorporates the expertise developed over the past years in the numerical solution of Einstein equations and of the hydrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Luca Baiotti , Ian Hawke , Pedro J. Montero , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a new numerical implementation of the general-relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations within the Whisky code. The numerical method adopted exploits the properties of implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Kyriaki Dionysopoulou , Daniela Alic , Carlos Palenzuela , Luciano Rezzolla , Bruno Giacomazzo

In this paper, the general procedure to solve the General Relativistic Hydrodynamical(GRH) equations with Adaptive-Mesh Refinement (AMR) is presented. In order to achieve, the GRH equations are written in the conservation form to exploit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Orhan Donmez

An implicit algorithm for solving the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics in conservative form in three-dimensional axi-symmetry is presented. This algorithm is a direct extension of the pseudo-Newtonian implicit radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ahmad Hujeirat , Max Camenzind , Bernhard W. Keil

We describe the special relativistic extension of the CRONOS code, which has been used for studies of gamma-ray binaries in recent years. The code was designed to be easily adaptable, allowing the user to easily change existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 David Huber , Ralf Kissmann