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We have written and tested a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, capable of evolving MHD fluids in dynamical spacetimes with adaptive-mesh refinement (AMR). Our code solves the Einstein-Maxwell-MHD system of coupled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

We implement advanced Riemann solvers HLLC and HLLD \cite{Mignone:2005ft,MUB:2009} together with an advanced constrained transport scheme \cite{Gardiner:2007nc} in a numerical-relativity neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamics code. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Kenta Kiuchi , Loren E. Held , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We present AsterX, a novel open-source, modular, GPU-accelerated, fully general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code designed for dynamic spacetimes in 3D Cartesian coordinates, and tailored for exascale computing. We utilize…

We investigate the long-term evolution of black hole accretion disks formed in neutron star mergers. These disks expel matter that contributes to an $r$-process kilonova, and can produce relativistic jets powering short gamma-ray bursts.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Rodrigo Fernández , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Francois Foucart , Daniel Kasen

We present GRaM-X (General Relativistic accelerated Magnetohydrodynamics on AMReX), a new GPU-accelerated dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code which extends the GRMHD capability of Einstein Toolkit to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Steven R. Brandt , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter , Yannick de Graaf

Given the compact binary evolution problem of numerical relativity, in the finite-difference, block-based, adaptive mesh refinement context, choices must be made on how evolved fields are to be discretized. In GR-Athena++, the space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Boris Daszuta , William Cook , Peter Hammond , Jacob Fields , Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

Merging binaries consisting of two neutron stars (NSs) or an NS and a stellar-mass black hole typically form a massive accretion torus around the remnant black hole or long-lived NS. Outflows from these neutrino-cooled accretion disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

There is great interest in numerical relativity simulations involving matter due to the likelihood that binary compact objects involving neutron stars will be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, as well as to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

GAMER, a parallel Graphic-processing-unit-accelerated Adaptive-MEsh-Refinement hydrodynamic code, has been extended to support magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with both the corner-transport-upwind (CTU) and MUSCL-Hancock schemes and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Ui-Han Zhang , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh

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

General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have revolutionized our understanding of black hole accretion. Here, we present a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated GRMHD code \hammer{} with multi-faceted optimizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-06 M. T. P. Liska , K. Chatterjee , D. Issa , D. Yoon , N. Kaaz , A. Tchekhovskoy , D. van Eijnatten , G. Musoke , C. Hesp , V. Rohoza , S. Markoff , A. Ingram , M. van der Klis

We present a discontinuous Galerkin-finite difference hybrid scheme that allows high-order shock capturing with the discontinuous Galerkin method for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in dynamical spacetimes. We present several…

The Athena MHD code has been extended to integrates the motion of particles coupled with the gas via aerodynamic drag, in order to study the dynamics of gas and solids in protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetesimals. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xue-Ning Bai , 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

We investigate numerical convergence in simulations of magnetically arrested disks around spinning black holes. Using the general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code Athena++, we study the same system at four resolutions (up to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-25 Christopher J. White , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert

Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present global, 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-04 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Xinyu Li , Bart Ripperda , Huan Yang

We describe the results high resolution, hydrodynamic calculations of neutron star mergers. The model makes use of a new, nuclear equation of state, accounts for multi-flavour neutrino emission and solves the equations of hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Rosswog

In this paper, we show that similar open-source codes for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) produce different results for key features of binary neutron star mergers. First, we present a new open-source version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Pedro Luis Espino , Gabriele Bozzola , Vasileios Paschalidis

We present a new three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamic evolution scheme coupled to dynamical spacetime evolutions which is capable of efficiently simulating stellar collapse, isolated neutron stars, black hole formation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-23 C. Reisswig , R. Haas , C. D. Ott , E. Abdikamalov , P. Moesta , D. Pollney , E. Schnetter

We present a new numerical code, X-ECHO, for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes. This is aimed at studying astrophysical situations where strong gravity and magnetic fields are both supposed to play an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna