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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 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 describe AthenaK: a new implementation of the Athena++ block-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework using the Kokkos programming model. Finite volume methods for Newtonian, special relativistic (SR), and general relativistic (GR)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 James M. Stone , Patrick D. Mullen , Drummond Fielding , Philipp Grete , Minghao Guo , Philipp Kempski , Elias R. Most , Christopher J. White , George N. Wong

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 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

We present a new multigrid scheme for solving the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. This scheme was developed in the context of the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Thomas Guillet , Romain Teyssier

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomoaki Matsumoto

Multiphase flows are an important class of fluid flow and their study facilitates the development of diverse applications in industrial, natural, and biomedical systems. We consider a model that uses a continuum description of both phases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-04 Bindi M. Nagda , Aaron Barrett , Boyce E. Griffith , Aaron L. Fogelson , Jian Du

We present an efficient MPI-parallel geometric multigrid library for quadtree (2D) or octree (3D) grids with adaptive refinement. Cartesian 2D/3D and cylindrical 2D geometries are supported, with second-order discretizations for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-26 Jannis Teunissen , Rony Keppens

Divergence constraints are present in the governing equations of numerous physical phenomena, and they usually lead to a Poisson equation whose solution represents a bottleneck in many simulation codes. Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) is arguably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Àdel Alsalti-Baldellou , Carlo Janna , Xavier Álvarez-Farré , F. Xavier Trias

We have developed an adaptive multigrid code for solving the Poisson equation in gravitational simulations. Finer rectangular subgrids are adaptively created in locations where the density exceeds a local level-dependent threshold. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Suisalu , E. Saar

Numerical simulations of self-gravitating flows evolve a momentum equation and an energy equation that account for accelerations and gravitational energy releases due to a time-dependent gravitational potential. In this work, we implement a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 P. D. Mullen , Tomoyuki Hanawa , C. F. Gammie

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 describe the algorithm, implementation and numerical tests of a multifluid dust module in the Athena++ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The module can accommodate an arbitrary number of dust species interacting with the gas via…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

On the path to exascale the landscape of computer device architectures and corresponding programming models has become much more diverse. While various low-level performance portable programming models are available, support at the…

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 present a simple and effective multigrid-based Poisson solver of second-order accuracy in both gravitational potential and forces in terms of the one, two and infinity norms. The method is especially suitable for numerical simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Chien-Chang Yen

In this paper we describe in detail the computational algorithm used by our parallel multigrid elliptic equation solver with adaptive mesh refinement. Our code uses truncation error estimates to adaptively refine the grid as part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. David Brown , Lisa L. Lowe

Since self-gravity is crucial in the structure formation of the universe, many hydrodynamics simulations with the effect of self-gravity have been conducted. The multigrid method is widely used as a solver for the Poisson equation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-13 Ryunosuke Maeda , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Multigrid solvers face multiple challenges on parallel computers. Two fundamental ones read as follows: Multiplicative solvers issue coarse grid solves which exhibit low concurrency and many multigrid implementations suffer from an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Charles D. Murray , Tobias Weinzierl
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