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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

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) simulations are an indispensable tool in studying accretion onto compact objects. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) frequently uses libraries of ideal GRMHD simulations to interpret…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Vedant Dhruv , Ben Prather , George Wong , Charles F. Gammie

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

A new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code ``RAISHIN'' used to simulate jet generation by rotating and non-rotating black holes with a geometrically thin Keplarian accretion disk finds that the jet develops a spine-sheath…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Philip Hardee , Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

We present a new approach for stably evolving general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations in regions where the magnetization $\sigma=b^2/\rho c^2$ becomes large. GRMHD codes typically struggle to evolve plasma above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Andrew Chael

Recent advances in black hole astrophysics, particularly the first visual evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and the detection of an orbiting "hot spot" nearby the…

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

The role of radiation in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion simulations is discussed through axisymmetric simulations of the evolution of an initial torus seeded with a weak magnetic field. The paper compares and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-07 Jean-Pierre De Villiers

We introduce CAFE, a new independent code designed to solve the equations of Relativistic ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) in 3D. We present the standard tests for a RMHD code and for the Relativistic Hydrodynamics (RHD) regime since we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. S. Guzman

A fully geometrical treatment of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) is developed under the hypotheses of perfect conductivity, stationarity and axisymmetry. The spacetime is not assumed to be circular, which allows for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Eric Gourgoulhon , Charalampos Markakis , Koji Uryu , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

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

We present a new numerical code, X-ECHO, for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes. This is aimed at studying astrophysical situations where strong gravity and magnetic fields are both supposed to play an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

We construct a relativistic resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (RRMHD) numerical simulation code for high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We split the system of differential equations into two parts, a non-stiff and a stiff part. For the non-stiff…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Kouki Nakamura , Takahiro Miyoshi , Chiho Nonaka , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) flows along magnetic fields threading a black hole can be divided into inflow and outflow parts, according to the result of the competition between the black hole gravity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hung-Yi Pu , Masanori Nakamura , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Kinwah Wu , Keiichi Asada

In this paper, we show that similar open-source codes for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) produce different results for key features of binary neutron star mergers. First, we present a new open-source version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Pedro Luis Espino , Gabriele Bozzola , Vasileios Paschalidis

We study low angular momentum, advective accretion flows around a Kerr black hole within the framework of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in the steady state. By solving the full set of GRMHD equations, we aim to provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Gargi Sen , Debaprasad Maity , Santabrata Das

Recent years have seen a significant progress in the development of general relativistic codes for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics in spacetimes with high and dynamical curvature. These codes are valuable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a new general relativistic hydrodynamics code specifically designed to study magneto-rotational, relativistic, stellar core collapse. The code is an extension of an existing (and thoroughly tested) hydrodynamics code, which has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Cerdá-Durán , J. A. Font

A third order shock-capturing numerical scheme for three-dimensional special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (3-D RMHD) is presented and validated against several numerical tests. The simple and efficient central scheme described in Paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Del Zanna , N. Bucciantini , P. Londrillo

We present a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve isothermal magnetohydrodynamic (IMHD) equations for use in modeling astrophysical flows. First, we have built a one-dimensional code which is based on an explicit finite-difference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , S. S. Hong