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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 recent developments in the parallelization scheme of ECHO-3DHPC, an efficient astrophysical code used in the modelling of relativistic plasmas. With the help of the Intel Software Development Tools, like Fortran compiler and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Matteo Bugli , Luigi Iapichino , Fabio Baruffa

In solar physics, a severe numerical challenge for modern simulations is properly representing a transition region between the million-degree hot corona and a much cooler plasma of about 10000 K (e.g., the upper chromosphere or a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Yu-Hao Zhou , Wen-Zhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We introduce the Mechanic, a new open-source code framework. It is designed to reduce the development effort of scientific applications by providing unified API (Application Programming Interface) for configuration, data storage and task…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Mariusz Słonina , Krzysztof Goździewski , Cezary Migaszewski

Large-scale coronal plasma evolutions can be adequately described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. However, full multi-dimensional MHD simulations require substantial computational resources. Given the low plasma $\beta$ in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Yuhao Zhou , Xiaohong Li , Rony Keppens

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

Numerical methods to improve the treatment of magnetic fields in smoothed field magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) are developed and tested. Chapter 2 is a review of SPMHD. In Chapter 3, a mixed hyperbolic/parabolic scheme is developed which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Terrence S. Tricco

Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

The advent of robust, reliable and accurate higher order Godunov schemes for many of the systems of equations of interest in computational astrophysics has made it important to understand how to solve them in multi-scale fashion. This is so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dinshaw Balsara

Space plasma simulations have seen an increase in the use of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) with embedded Particle-in-Cell (PIC) models. This combined MHD-EPIC algorithm simulates some regions of interest using the kinetic PIC method while…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yinsi Shou , Valeriy Tenishev , Yuxi Chen , Gabor Toth , Natalia Ganushkina

Implementation details and test cases of a newly developed hydrodynamic code, AMRA, are presented. The numerical scheme exploits the adaptive mesh refinement technique coupled to modern high-resolution schemes which are suitable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomek Plewa , Ewald Mueller

We extend the state-of-the-art N-body code PKDGRAV3 with the inclusion of mesh-free gas hydrodynamics for cosmological simulations. Two new hydrodynamic solvers have been implemented, the mesh-less finite volume and mesh-less finite mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Isaac Alonso Asensio , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Douglas Potter , Joachim Stadel

With the forthcoming VLBI images of Sgr A* and M87, simulations of accretion flows onto black holes acquire a special importance to aid with the interpretation of the observations and to test the predictions of different accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Hector Olivares , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno

Solar flare prediction studies have been recently conducted with the use of Space-Weather MDI (Michelson Doppler Imager onboard Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) Active Region Patches (SMARP) and Space-Weather HMI (Helioseismic and…

Time-dependent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation modules are implemented at the Joint Science Operation Center (JSOC) of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The modules regularly produce three-dimensional data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-22 Keiji Hayashi , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Monica G. Bobra , Xudong D. Sun , Aimee A. Norton

Obtainable computational efficiency is evaluated when using an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy in time accurate simulations governed by sets of conservation laws. For a variety of 1D, 2D, and 3D hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Keppens , M. Nool , G. Toth , J. P. Goedbloed

This report summarizes the major progresses to develop the dynamic core for next-generation atmospherical model for both numerical weather prediction and climate simulation. The numerical framework is based on a general formulation,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Xingliang Li , Chungang Chen , Xueshun Shen , Feng Xiao

Waves observed in the photosphere and chromosphere of sunspots show complex dynamics and spatial patterns. The interpretation of high-resolution sunspot wave observations requires modeling of three-dimensional non-linear wave propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Felipe , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

The study of our Sun holds significant importance in Space Weather research, encompassing a diverse range of phenomena characterized by distinct temporal and spatial scales. To address these complexities, we developed CAFE-AMR, an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ricardo Ochoa-Armenta , Francisco S. Guzmán

We extend recently-developed mesh-free Lagrangian methods for numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to arbitrary anisotropic diffusion equations, including: passive scalar diffusion, Spitzer-Braginskii conduction and viscosity, cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Philip F. Hopkins