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We describe a method for incorporating ambipolar diffusion in the strong coupling approximation into a multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics code based on the total variation diminishing scheme. Contributions from ambipolar diffusion terms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Jongsoo Kim , Paul J. Wiita

Realistic numerical simulations, i.e., those that make minimal use of ad hoc modeling, are essential for understanding the complex turbulent dynamics of the interiors and atmospheres of the Sun and other stars and the basic mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-30 Alan A. Wray , Khalil Bensassi , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Nagi N. Mansour , Alexander G. Kosovichev

Knowledge of electric fields in the photosphere is required to calculate the electromagnetic energy flux through the photosphere and set up boundary conditions for data-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar eruptions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Andrey N. Afanasyev , Maria D. Kazachenko , Yuhong Fan , George H. Fisher , Benoit Tremblay

We discuss the design and implementation of HYDRA_OMP a parallel implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Adaptive P3M (SPH-AP3M) code HYDRA. The code is designed primarily for conducting cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics has reached a level of maturity that enables the study of a wide range of astrophysical problems. In this review, the numerical details of the modern SPMHD method are described. The three fundamental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Terrence S. Tricco

The early evolution of unstable hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equilibria is often governed by a few dominant linear eigenmodes. We investigate whether initialising a simulation with a superposition of linear eigenmodes that contains…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Jordi De Jonghe , Alexander J. B. Russell

Physical problems with a solution that can be expressed analytically are scarce; this holds even more true for problems set in a cosmological context. Such solutions are, however, invaluable tools for making comparisons between theory,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Orestis A. Karapiperis , Matthieu Schaller

Advances in detectors and computational technologies provide new opportunities for applied research and the fundamental sciences. Concurrently, dramatic increases in the three Vs (Volume, Velocity, and Variety) of experimental data and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Nikolay Malitsky , Aashish Chaudhary , Sebastien Jourdain , Matt Cowan , Patrick O'Leary , Marcus Hanwell , Kerstin Kleese Van Dam

This paper presents a new code for performing multidimensional radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) simulations on parallel computers involving anisotropic radiation fields and nonequilibrium effects. The radiation evolution modules described here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. Hayes , Michael L. Norman

We apply a computationally efficient technique to validate the global structure of the pulsar magnetosphere. In this first of a series of studies, a 3D, computationally intensive, implicit Crank-Nicolson finite-difference scheme is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Sushilkumar Sreekumar , Eric M. Schlegel

The problem of the resolution of turbulent flows in adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations is investigated by means of 3D hydrodynamical simulations in an idealised setup, representing a moving subcluster during a merger event. AMR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Iapichino , J. Adamek , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer

To leverage the last two decades' transition in High-Performance Computing (HPC) towards clusters of compute nodes bound together with fast interconnects, a modern scalable CFD code must be able to efficiently distribute work amongst…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Åsmund Ervik , Svend Tollak Munkejord , Bernhard Müller

We present a new multi-fluid, grid MHD code PIERNIK, which is based on the Relaxing TVD scheme (Jin & Xin, 1995). The original scheme (see Trac & Pen (2003) and Pen et al. (2003)) has been extended by an addition of dynamically independent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-25 Michał Hanasz , Kacper Kowalik , Dominik Wóltański , Rafał Pawłaszek

We numerically investigate the excitation and temporal evolution of oscillations in a two-dimensional coronal arcade by including the three-dimensional propagation of perturbations. The time evolution of impulsively generated perturbations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Rial , I. Arregui , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

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

This paper presents an arbitrary h.o. accurate ADER DG method on space-time adaptive meshes (AMR) for the solution of two important families of non-linear time dependent PDE for compr. dissipative flows: the compr. Navier-Stokes equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser , Olindo Zanotti

Our aim is to study the thermal and dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks in global simulations, including the physics of radiation transfer and magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence caused by the magneto-rotational instability. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Flock , S. Fromang , M. González , B. Commerçon

A new code and methodology are introduced for solving the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations in fixed background spacetimes using time-explicit, finite-volume discretization. The code has options for solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile , Jay D. Salmonson

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