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FleCSPH is a smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation tool, based on the compile-time configurable framework FleCSI. The asynchronous distributed tree topology combined with a fast multipole method allows FleCSPH to efficiently compute…

We present the AGATE simulation code, a Python-based framework developed primarily for solving the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations while maintaining adaptability to other equation sets. The code employs a modular, object-oriented…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Chris Bard , John Dorelli

A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method suitable for large-scale astrophysical simulations on Cartesian meshes as well as arbitrary static and moving Voronoi meshes is presented. Most major astrophysical fluid dynamics codes use a finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Ruediger Pakmor , Lars Hernquist

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a promising alternative to dark matter. To further test the theory, there is a need for fluid- and particle-dynamics simulations. The force in MOND is not a direct particle-particle interaction, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 P. M. Visser , S. W. H. Eijt , J. V. de Nijs

We report a new finite-difference scheme for two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations, with and without rotation, in unstructured grids with quadrilateral cells. The new scheme is implemented within the code VULCAN/2D, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eli Livne , Luc Dessart , Adam Burrows , Casey A. Meakin

In this paper, we describe a new hydrodynamics code for 1D and 2D astrophysical simulations, BETHE-hydro, that uses time-dependent, arbitrary, unstructured grids. The core of the hydrodynamics algorithm is an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremiah W. Murphy , Adam Burrows

We review the numerical techniques for ideal and non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) used in the context of star formation simulations. We outline the specific challenges offered by modeling star forming environments, which are dominated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Romain Teyssier , Benoit Commercon

Accreting neutron stars can power a wide range of astrophysical phenomena including short- and long-duration gamma-ray bursts, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, and X-ray binaries. Numerical simulations are a valuable tool for studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Kyle Parfrey , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) spectroscopy is central to many astrophysical disciplines, ranging from helio- to asteroseismology, over solar coronal (loop) seismology, to the study of waves and instabilities in jets, accretion disks, or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Niels Claes , Jordi De Jonghe , Rony Keppens

We use the 3D stellar structure code DJEHUTY to model the ingestion of protons into the intershell convection zone of a 1 solar mass asymptotic giant branch star of metallicity Z=10^-4. We have run two simulations: a low resolution one of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Richard J. Stancliffe , David S. P. Dearborn , John C. Lattanzio , Stuart A. Heap , Simon W. Campbell

Fluctuating hydrodynamics (FHD) provides a framework for modeling microscopic fluctuations in a manner consistent with statistical mechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. This paper presents an FHD formulation for isothermal reactive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-05 Changho Kim , Andy Nonaka , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev

In magnetic confinement fusion research, the achievement of high plasma pressure is key to reaching the goal of net energy production. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model is used to self-consistently calculate the effects the plasma…

Studying the propagation of uncertainties in a nonlinear dynamical system usually involves generating a set of samples in the stochastic parameter space and then repeated simulations with different sampled parameters. The main difficulty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Nan Jiang , Michael Schneier

Neutrino transport and neutrino interactions in dense matter play a crucial role in stellar core collapse, supernova explosions and neutron star formation. Here we present a detailed description of a new numerical code for treating the time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Markus Rampp , H. -Thomas Janka

We have developed a hybrid code GMEC: Gyro-kinetic Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Energetic-particle Code that can numerically simulate energetic particle-driven Alfv\'en eigenmodes and energetic particle transport in tokamak plasmas. In order…

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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations at present usually employ either the Lagrangian SPH technique, or Eulerian hydrodynamics on a Cartesian mesh with adaptive mesh refinement. Both of these methods have disadvantages that negatively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Volker Springel

We propose a simple ansatz for estimating the value of the numerical resistivity and the numerical viscosity of any Eulerian MHD code. We test this ansatz with the help of simulations of the propagation of (magneto)sonic waves, Alfven…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Tomasz Rembiasz , Martin Obergaulinger , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Ewald Müller

The Eulerian space-time correlation of strong Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in strongly magnetized plasmas is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations of Reduced MHD turbulence and phenomenological modeling. Two new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Jean C. Perez , Sofiane Bourouaine

We have developed a new three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code, RAISHIN, using a conservative, high resolution shock-capturing scheme. The numerical fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, & van Leer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Shinji Koide , Philip Hardee , Gerald J. Fishman