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We report a current status of our radiation-magnetohydrodynamic code for the study of core-collapse supernovae. In this contribution, we discuss the accuracy of our newly developed numerical code by presenting the test problem in a static…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kei Kotake , Naofumi Ohnishi , Shoichi Yamada , Katsuhiko Sato

The dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks is of key interest for building a comprehensive theory of planet formation and to explain the observational properties of these objects. Using the magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++, with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Fulvia Pucci , Kengo Tomida , James Stone , Shinsuke Takasao , Hantao Ji , Shoichi Okamura

In this paper we describe a numerical method designed for modelling different kinds of astrophysical flows in three dimensions. Our method is a standard explicit finite difference method employing the local shearing-box technique. To model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. E. Caunt , M. J. Korpi

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

When a self-gravitating spherical gas cloud collapses or accretes onto a central mass, the inner region of the cloud develops a density profile $\rho\propto r^{-3/2}$ and the velocity approaches free-fall. We show that in this region,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dong Lai , Peter Goldreich

We extend the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of Athena++ to incorporate radiation. The intensity field in each finite-volume cell is discretized in angle, with explicit transport in both space and angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Christopher J. White , Patrick D. Mullen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Viktoriya Morozova , Lizhong Zhang

We study energy dissipation and heating by supersonic MHD turbulence in molecular clouds using Athena, a new higher-order Godunov code. We analyze the dependence of the saturation amplitude, energy dissipation characteristics, power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone

We expand previous works on the spherical `top-hat' collapse (SC-TH) framework in generalized Chaplygin gas (gCg) dominated universes. Here we allow the collapse in all energetic components within the system. We analyze the non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 R. A. A. Fernandes , J. P. M. de Carvalho , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , U. Moschella , A. da Silva

We describe a powerful methodology for numerical solution of 3-D self-gravitational hydrodynamics problems with extremely high resolution. Our method utilizes the technique of local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), employing multiple grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher , Christopher F. McKee , J. Kelly Truelove

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

Disks with a barotropic equilibrium structure, for which the pressure is only a function of the density, rotate on cylinders in the presence of a gravitational potential, so that the angular frequency of such a disk is independent of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-06 Colin P. McNally , Martin E. Pessah

We present an analytical model for the non-spherical collapse of overdense regions out of a Gaussian random field of initial cosmological perturbations. The collapsing region is treated as an ellipsoid of constant density, acted upon by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Abraham Loeb

The spherical collapse scenario has great importance in cosmology since it captures several crucial aspects of structure formation. The presence of self-similar solutions in the Einstein-de Sitter (EdS) model greatly simplifies its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Han Zhang , Tobias Weinzierl , Holger Schulz , Baojiu Li

A PCA-based, machine learning version of the SPH method is proposed. In the present scheme, the smoothing tensor is computed to have their eigenvalues proportional to the covariance's principal components, using a modified octree data…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Eraldo Pereira Marinho

Various radio observations have showed that the hot atmospheres of galaxy clusters are magnetized. However, our understanding of the origin of these magnetic fields, their implications on structure formation and their interplay with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Dolag , F. A. Stasyszyn

In these proceedings we present recent efforts to understand the energetics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). These studies are carried out in the local (shearing box) approximation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas A. Gardiner , James M. Stone

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

In a previous work the authors described a fast high-fidelity computer model for acoustic scattering from multi-layered elastic spheres. This work is now extended with a scaling strategy significantly mitigating the problem of overflow and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-04 Jon Vegard Venås , Trond Jenserud

We show how the local approximation of astrophysical discs, which is the basis for the well known model of the shearing box, can be used to study many aspects of the dynamics of warped discs. In the local model, inclination of the orbit of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie

Gravitational collapse of the cylindrical elongated cloud is studied by numerical magnetohydrodynamical simulations. In the infinitely long cloud in hydrostatic configuration, small perturbations grow by the gravitational instability. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Kohji Tomisaka