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Many astrophysical systems can only be accurately modelled when the behaviour of their baryonic gas components is well understood. The residual distribution (RD) family of partial differential equation (PDE) solvers produce approximate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Ben Morton , Sadegh Khochfar , Zhenyu Wu

Radiative transfer has a strong impact on the collapse and the fragmentation of prestellar dense cores. We present the radiation-hydrodynamics solver we designed for the RAMSES code. The method is designed for astrophysical purposes, and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Benoit Commercon , Romain Teyssier , Edouard Audit , Patrick Hennebelle , Gilles Chabrier

A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It combines higher-order Godunov methods with the constrained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner , Peter Teuben , John F. Hawley , Jacob B. Simon

Higher order finite volume schemes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) are very valuable because they allow us to carry out astrophysical simulations with very high accuracy. However, astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Deepak Bhoriya , Chetan Singh , Harish Kumar , Roger Käppeli , Federico Gatti

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

In this work we present a proof of concept of CUDA-capable, resistive, multi-fluid models of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). Resistive and multi-fluid codes for simulating models of RMHD suffer from stiff source terms, so it is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Alex James Wright , Ian Hawke

Convergence failure and slow convergence rates are among the biggest challenges with solving the system of non-linear equations numerically. Although mitigated, such issues still linger when using strictly small time steps and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Hanyu Li , Wing Tat Leung , Mary F. Wheeler

A new N-body and hydrodynamical code, called RAMSES, is presented. It has been designed to study structure formation in the universe with high spatial resolution. The code is based on Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) technique, with a tree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Romain Teyssier

The use of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques is crucial for accurate and efficient simulation of higher dimensional spacetimes. In this work we develop an adaptive algorithm tailored to the integration of finite difference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Frans Pretorius , Luis Lehner

We present a new numerical method of special relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with scalar resistivity that can treat a range of phenomena, from nonrelativistic to relativistic (shock, contact discontinuity, and Alfv\'en wave).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Makoto Takamoto , Tsuyoshi Inoue

We present a new numerical tool for solving the special relativistic ideal MHD equations that is based on the combination of the following three key features: (i) a one-step ADER discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme that allows for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Olindo Zanotti , Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser

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

We develop a new relativistic radiation hydrodynamics code based on the Monte-Carlo algorithm. In this code, we implement a new scheme to achieve the second-order accuracy in time in the limit of a large packet number for solving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Masaru Shibata

We have carried out numerical simulations of strongly gravitating systems based on the Einstein equations coupled to the relativistic hydrodynamic equations using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques. We show AMR simulations of NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Edwin Evans , Sai Iyer , Erik Schnetter , Wai-Mo Suen , Jian Tao , Randy Wolfmeyer , Hui-Min Zhang

We introduce adaptive particle refinement for compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). SPH calculations have the natural advantage that resolution follows mass, but this is not always optimal. Our implementation allows the user…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Rebecca Nealon , Daniel Price

We present a 3D special-relativistic radiation hydrodynamics code. It uses the radiative inversion scheme with the M1-closure relation for the radiation equations, which allows the treatment of a wide range of optical depth, temperature and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 F. J. Rivera-Paleo , F. S. Guzmán

This paper proposes a novel numerical method based on Godunov Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for special relativistic fluid dynamics. Our method utilizes a Riemann solver to describe shock, enhancing accuracy in strong shock waves. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Kanta Kitajima , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Izumi Seno

I provide a pedagogic review of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) methods and codes used in simulations of star formation, at a level suitable for researchers who are not computational experts. I begin with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark R. Krumholz

We present a new numerical algorithm for the solution of coupled collisional and collisionless systems, based on the block structured adaptive mesh and time refinement strategy (AMR). We describe the issues associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Miniati , Phillip Colella

We present a new numerical code which solves the general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations coupled to the Einstein equations for the evolution of a dynamical spacetime within the conformally-flat approximation. This code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José A. Font , Luis Antón , Ewald Müller