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Preserving scalar boundedness is important for numerical schemes used in turbulent compressible multi-component flow simulations to prevent unphysical results and unstable simulations. However, ensuring scalar boundedness for high-order,…

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In this chapter, we aim at presenting the basic techniques necessary to go beyond the widely accepted paradigm of second-order numerics. We specifically focus on finite-volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws occuring in fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

We examine the range of rest-mass densities, temperatures and magnetic fields involved in simulations of binary neutron star mergers (BNSM) and identify the conditions under which the ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) breaks down using…

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We present numerical results on three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic core-collapse simulations of an $11.2 M_{\odot}$ star. By comparing one-(1D) and two-dimensional(2D) results with those of 3D, we study how the increasing spacial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Yudai Suwa

A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Pavlovski , M. D. Smith , M. -M. Mac Low

This paper addresses the evolution of an axially symmetric magnetic field in the core of a neutron star. The matter in the core is modeled as a system of two fluids, namely neutrons and charged particles, with slightly different velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 F. Castillo , N. A. Moraga , M. E. Gusakov , J. A. Valdivia , A. Reisenegger

The properties of dense granular systems are analyzed from a hydrodynamical point of view, based on conservation laws for the particle number density and linear momentum. We discuss averaging problems associated with the nature of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Clara Saluena , Sergei E. Esipov , Thorsten Poeschel

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

We describe computational tools that have been developed to simulate dynamical mass transfer in semi-detached, polytropic binaries that are initially executing synchronous rotation upon circular orbits. Initial equilibrium models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Patrick M Motl , Joel E Tohline , Juhan Frank

A recent paper by Lucas-Serrano et al. indicates that a high-resolution central (HRC) scheme is robust enough to yield accurate hydrodynamical simulations of special relativistic flows in the presence of ultrarelativistic speeds and strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata , José A. Font

We present a new 1-D multi-physics simulation code with use cases intended for, but not limited to, hydrodynamic escapeproblems of planetary atmospheres and planetary accretion models. Our formulation treats an arbitrary number of species…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Matthäus Schulik , Richard Booth

Atmospheric systems incorporating thermal dynamics must be stable with respect to both energy and entropy. While energy conservation can be enforced via the preservation of the skew-symmetric structure of the Hamiltonian form of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru

The flow inside remnants of binary neutron star (NS) mergers is expected to be turbulent, because of magnetohydrodynamics instability activated at scales too small to be resolved in simulations. To study the large-scale impact of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 David Radice

Numerical simulations of self-gravitating flows evolve a momentum equation and an energy equation that account for accelerations and gravitational energy releases due to a time-dependent gravitational potential. In this work, we implement a…

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We introduce a computational framework which avoids solving explicitly hydrodynamic equations and is suitable to study the pre-merger evolution of black hole-neutron star binary systems. The essence of the method consists of constructing a…

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In numerical simulations, artificial terms are applied to the evolution equations for stability. To prove their validity, these terms are thoroughly tested in test problems where the results are well known. However, they are seldom tested…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-26 James Wurster , Matthew R. Bate , Daniel J. Price , Terrence S. Tricco

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…

We study the moving phase of two-dimensional (2D) incompressible polar active fluids in the presence of both quenched and annealed disorder. We show that long-range polar order persists even in this defect-ridden two-dimensional system. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-04 Leiming Chen , Chiu Fan Lee , Ananyo Maitra , John Toner

By means of HARM\_COOL\_EOS, which is our code for conservative relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, we developed a new scheme for the simulation of a system formed after compact binary merger. Our code works with a tabulated equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-18 Agnieszka Janiuk , Gerardo Urrutia

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