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HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We describe a powerful methodology for numerical solution of 3-D self-gravitational hydrodynamics problems with extremely high resolution. Our method utilizes the technique of local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), employing multiple grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher , Christopher F. McKee , J. Kelly Truelove

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on the ideal MHD equations have become a powerful tool for modeling phenomena in a wide range of applications including laboratory, astrophysical, and space plasmas. In general, high-resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Hon-Cheng Wong , Un-Hong Wong , Xueshang Feng , Zesheng Tang

We present the development and benchmarking of Poisson solvers for graphics processing units (GPUs). Implemented in the Astaroth platform, the solvers feature high computational efficiency. We present novel combinations of discretizations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Touko Puro , Wei-Wen Li , Hsien Shang , Miikka S. Väisälä , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Matthias Rheinhardt , Maarit Korpi-Lagg

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 computationally efficient method has been introduced to treat self-gravity in mesh based hydrodynamical simulations. It is applied simply by slightly modifying the Poisson equation into an inhomogeneous wave equation. This roughly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ryosuke Hirai , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotada Okawa , Kotaro Fujisawa

We present an efficient implementation for running three-dimensional numerical simulations of fluid-structure interaction problems on single GPUs, based on Nvidia CUDA through Numba and Python. The incompressible flow around moving bodies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-05 M. Guerrero-Hurtado , J. M. Catalán , M. Moriche , A. Gonzalo , O. Flores

Self-gravity plays an important role in the evolution of rotationally supported systems such as protoplanetary disks, accretion disks around black holes, or galactic disks, as it can both feed turbulence or lead to gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel

Numerical radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) for non-relativistic flows is a challenging problem because it encompasses processes acting over a very broad range of timescales, and where the relative importance of these processes often varies by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Chong-Chong He , Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz

We present a new code, CASTRO, that solves the multicomponent compressible hydrodynamic equations for astrophysical flows including self-gravity, nuclear reactions and radiation. CASTRO uses an Eulerian grid and incorporates adaptive mesh…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. S. Almgren , V. E. Beckner , J. B. Bell , M. S. Day , L. H. Howell , C. C. Joggerst , M. J. Lijewski , A. Nonaka , M. Singer , M. Zingale

We present Quokka, a new subcycling-in-time, block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) radiation hydrodynamics code optimised for graphics processing units (GPUs). Quokka solves the equations of hydrodynamics with the piecewise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz

Astrophysical relativistic flow problems require high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. In this paper, we describe a new parallel three-dimensional code for simulations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Weiqun Zhang

We present the numerical methods, programming methodology, verification, and performance assessment of a non-equilibrium plasma fluid solver that can effectively utilize current and upcoming central processing and graphics processing unit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Hariswaran Sitaraman , Nicholas Deak , Taaresh Taneja

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

We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison with moving-mesh, SPH, and stationary (non-moving) grid methods. The new methods are designed to simultaneously capture advantages of both smoothed-particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is a classical technique about local refinement in space where needed, thus effectively reducing computational costs for HPC-based physics simulations. Although AMR has been used for many years, little…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-14 Dewen Liu , Shuai He , Haoran Cheng , Yadong Zeng

This paper highlights first steps towards enabling graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration of the task-parallel smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver SWIFT. Novel combinations of algorithms are presented, enabling SWIFT to…

We introduce a new code, ECOSMOG, to run N-body simulations for a wide class of modified gravity and dynamical dark energy theories. These theories generally have one or more new dynamical degrees of freedom, the dynamics of which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Romain Teyssier , Kazuya Koyama

Hydrodynamics calculations have been successfully used in studies of the bulk properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, particularly of elliptic flow and shear viscosity. However, there are areas (for instance event-by-event simulations for…

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