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We describe a conservative, shock-capturing scheme for evolving the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, and van Leer scheme. A variant of constrained transport, proposed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Charles F. Gammie , Jonathan C. McKinney , Gábor Tóth

In this paper we present a fully relativistic study of axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic Bondi--Hoyle accretion onto a moving Kerr black hole. The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics are solved using high resolution shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Andrew J Penner

With the advance of supercomputers we can now afford simulations with very large ranges of scales. In astrophysical applications, e.g. simulating Solar, stellar and planetary atmospheres, interstellar medium, etc; physical quantities, like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Andrius Popovas

We present the first spectral energy distributions produced self-consistently by 2.5D general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) numerical simulations, where radiative cooling is included in the dynamical calculation. As a case…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Samia Drappeau , Salomé Dibi , Jason Dexter , Sera Markoff , P. Chris Fragile

We put forward a new type of spectral method for the direct numerical simulation of flows where anisotropy or very fine boundary layers are present. The mean idea is to take advantage of the fact that such structures are dissipative and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-18 Kacper Kornet , Alban Pothérat

In this work, we design an entropy stable, finite volume approximation for the shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (SWMHD) equations. The method is novel as we design an affordable analytical expression of the numerical interface flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner

Numerical simulations of waves in highly heterogeneous media have important applications, but direct computations are prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we develop a new generalized multiscale finite element method with the aim of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Eric T. Chung , Wing Tat Leung

We consider the relativistic hydrodynamics of non-perfect fluids with the goal of determining a formulation that is suited for numerical integration in special-relativistic and general-relativistic scenarios. To this end, we review the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla , Dirk H. Rischke

In this study, we develop a modeling framework based on spatio-temporal generalized random fields to simulate the time-evolving accretion flows and their associated imaging signatures around rotating regular black holes. We extend the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Sen Guo , En-Wei Liang , Yu-Xiang Huang , Yu Liang , Qing-Quan Jiang , Kai Lin , Li-Fang Li

Spectral direct numerical simulations of incompressible MHD turbulence at a resolution of up to $1024^3$ collocation points are presented for a statistically isotropic system as well as for a setup with an imposed strong mean magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wolf-Christian Mueller , Roland Grappin

We use rigorous techniques from numerical analysis of hyperbolic equations in bounded domains to construct stable finite-difference schemes for Numerical Relativity, in particular for their use in black hole excision. As an application, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gioel Calabrese , Luis Lehner , David Neilsen , Jorge Pullin , Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

The detection of binary neutron star mergers represents one of the most important astrophysical discoveries of the recent years. Due to the extreme matter and gravity conditions and the rich dynamics developed, it becomes a tremendous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Daniele Viganò , Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Federico Carrasco , Borja Miñano , Carlos Palenzuela

Hot, diffuse, relativistic plasmas such as sub-Eddington black hole accretion flows are expected to be collisionless, yet are commonly modeled as a fluid using ideal general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). Dissipative effects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Mani Chandra , Francois Foucart , Charles F. Gammie

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have been instrumental in our understanding of high energy astrophysical phenomena over the past two decades. Their robustness and modularity make them a great tool for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 Mayank Pathak , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

As a follow-up study of our previous work, numerical-relativity simulations for seconds-long black hole-neutron star mergers are performed for a variety of setups. Irrespective of the initial and symmetry conditions, we find qualitatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

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

Computational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for space physics has become an essential area in understanding the multiscale dynamics of geophysical and astrophysical plasma processes, partially motivated by the lack of space data. Full MHD…

Binary neutron star mergers are among the most energetic events in our Universe, with magnetic fields significantly impacting their dynamics, particularly after the merger. While numerical-relativity simulations that correctly describe the…

A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

We present two-dimensional general relativistic radiative magnetohydrodynamical simulations of accretion disks around non-rotating stellar-mass black hole. We study the evolution of an equilibrium accreting torus in different grid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Angelos Karakonstantakis , Debora Lančová , Włodek Kluźniak , Miljenko Čemeljić