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Modern gravitational-wave science demands increasingly accurate and computationally intensive numerical relativity (NR) simulations. The Python-based, open-source NRPy framework generates optimized C/C++ code for NR, including the complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Nishita Jadoo , Terrence Pierre Jacques , Zachariah B. Etienne

Numerical relativity has come a long way in the last three decades and is now reaching a state of maturity. We are gaining a deeper understanding of the fundamental theoretical issues related to the field, from the well posedness of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Miguel Alcubierre

Advances in our understanding of the origin, evolution and structure of the universe have long been driven by cosmological perturbation theory, model building and effective field theory. In this review, we introduce numerical relativity as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Anna Ijjas

The gauge polyvalence of a new numerical code is tested, both in harmonic-coordinate simulations (gauge-waves testbed) and in singularity-avoiding coordinates (simple Black-Hole simulations, either with or without shift). The code is built…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Daniela Alic , Carles Bona , Carles Bona-Casas

Inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes are promising sources of gravitational radiation. The orbital motion and gravitational-wave emission of such system can be modelled using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-06 Alexandre Le Tiec

We report on a numerical study of viscous fluid accretion onto a black hole. The flow is axisymmetric and uses a pseudo-Newtonian potential to model relativistic effects near the event horizon. The numerical method is a variant of the ZEUS…

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

We report on a new 3D numerical code designed to solve the Einstein equations for general vacuum spacetimes. This code is based on the standard 3+1 approach using cartesian coordinates. We discuss the numerical techniques used in developing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Peter Anninos , Karen Camarda , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , John Towns

We model the structure and evolution of black hole accretion disks, and their neighboring regions, using numerical simulations. The numerics is governed by the equations of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD). In particular,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-25 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis , Jeremy Mortier , Ireneusz Janiuk

This article begins with a brief introduction to numerical relativity aimed at readers who have a background in applied mathematics but not necessarily in general relativity. I then introduce and summarise my work on the problem of treating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-29 Oliver Rinne

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

In this contribution we present an overview of our work on the numerical simulation of the perturbation of a black hole space-time by incoming gravitational waves. The formulation we use is based on Friedrich's general conformal equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Breanna Camden , Jörg Frauendiener , Joseph Galinski , Kaushal Pillay , Chris Stevens , Sebenele Thwala

Black holes are among the most exciting phenomena predicted by General Relativity and play a key role in fundamental physics. Many interesting phenomena involve dynamical black hole configurations in the high curvature regime of gravity. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-11 Helvi Witek

Creating software dedicated to simulation is essential for teaching and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Physics lecturing can be more effective when digital twins are used to accompany theory classes.…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Milagros Delgado , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

When a numerical simulation has to handle a physics problem with a wide range of time-dependent length scales, dynamically adaptive discretizations can be the method of choice. We present a major upgrade to the numerical relativity code…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Sarah Renkhoff , Daniela Cors , David Hilditch , Bernd Brügmann

We developed realistic fully general relativistic computer code for simulation of optical projection in a strong, spherically symmetric gravitational field. Standard theoretical analysis of optical projection for an observer in the vicinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bakala , P. Cermak , S. Hledik , Z. Stuchlik , K. Truparova

We have developed a realistic, fully general relativistic computer code to simulate optical projection in a strong, spherically symmetric gravitational field. The standard theoretical analysis of optical projection for an observer in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Bakala , P. Cermak , S. Hledik , Z. Stuchlik , K. Truparova

Spherically symmetric (1D) black-hole spacetimes are considered as a test for numerical relativity. A finite difference code, based in the hyperbolic structure of Einstein's equations with the harmonic slicing condition is presented.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Carles Bona , Joan Masso , Joan Stela

This paper presents a quasi-local method of studying the physics of dynamical black holes in numerical simulations. This is done within the dynamical horizon framework, which extends the earlier work on isolated horizons to time-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik Schnetter , Badri Krishnan , Florian Beyer

We present a new python/SymPy based code generator for producing executable numerical expressions for partial differential equations in AMReX-based applications. We demonstrate the code generator capabilities for the case of $3+1$ ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-23 Adam J Peterson , Don Willcox , Phillip Moesta

Since the breakthroughs in 2005 which have led to long term stable solutions of the binary black hole problem in numerical relativity, much progress has been made. I present here a short summary of the state of the field, including the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-28 Ian Hinder