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We present a novel spectral solver for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on dynamical spacetimes. By combining a high order discontinuous spectral method on mapped Chebyshev Fourier grids, our scheme attains exponential convergence.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Beibei Li

We present the first astrophysical application of the ECHO code in its recent version supplemented by a generalized Ohm law, namely a kinematic study of dynamo effects in thick accretion disks. High-order \emph{implicit-explicit}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-15 L. Del Zanna , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

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 perform three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of a near-maximally spinning black hole (spin parameter, a = 0.998) with varying initial magnetic field geometries, systematically exploring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Rohan Raha , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Koushik Chatterjee

We assemble the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in 3+1 form. These consist of the complete coupled set of Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field, Einstein's equations for the gravitational field, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

Gravitational wave astronomy has opened an unprecedented window onto tests of gravity and fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. In this study, we examine a series of well-motivated deviations from the classical Kerr solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Zhe Zhao , Swarnim Shashank , Debtroy Das , Cosimo Bambi

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernovas, compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang

We have studied numerically the so-called Bondi-Hoyle (wind) accretion on to a rotating (Kerr) black hole in general relativity. We have used the Kerr-Schild form of the Kerr metric, free of coordinate singularities at the black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose A. Font , Jose M. Ibanez , Philippos Papadopoulos

We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

To study phenomena of plasmas around rotating black holes, we have derived a set of 3+1 formalism of generalized general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations. Especially, we investigated general relativistic phenomena with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Shinji Koide

A new implementation for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity (involving dynamical spacetimes) is presented. In our implementation, Einstein's evolution equations are evolved by a BSSN formalism, MHD equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masaru Shibata , Yu-ichiou Sekiguchi

The last evolutionary stages of massive black hole binaries prior to coalescence is dominated by the emission of gravitational waves, which will be probed by the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. If gas is present around the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Giacomo Fedrigo , Alessandro Lupi , Alessia Franchini , Matteo Bonetti

This work summarizes a program intended to unify three burgeoning branches of the high-energy astrophysics of relativistic jets: general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of ever-increasing dynamical range, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-15 Richard Anantua , Roger Blandford , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We present a novel approach to study the global structure of steady, axisymmetric, advective, geometrically thin, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion flow around black holes in full general relativity (GR). Considering ideal MHD conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Samik Mitra , Debaprasad Maity , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Santabrata Das

Recent observations by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* offer valuable insights into their spacetime properties and astrophysical conditions. Utilizing a library of model images (~2 million for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 A. I. Yfantis , S. Zhao , R. Gold , M. Mościbrodzka , A. E. Broderick

We present an improved version of the ECHO-QGP numerical code, which self-consistently includes for the first time the effects of electromagnetic fields within the framework of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). We discuss results of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-12 Gabriele Inghirami , Luca Del Zanna , Andrea Beraudo , Mohsen Haddadi Moghaddam , Francesco Becattini , Marcus Bleicher

We present the first kinematic study of an $\alpha\Omega$-dynamo in the General Relativistic Magneto-HydroDynamics (GRMHD) regime, applied to thick disks orbiting around Kerr black holes and using a fully covariant mean field dynamo closure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Bugli , L. Del Zanna , N. Bucciantini

This paper presents a new computer code to solve the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations using distributed parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The fluid equations are solved using a finite difference Convex ENO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew Anderson , Eric Hirschmann , Steven L. Liebling , David Neilsen

An implicit algorithm for solving the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics in conservative form in three-dimensional axi-symmetry is presented. This algorithm is a direct extension of the pseudo-Newtonian implicit radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ahmad Hujeirat , Max Camenzind , Bernhard W. Keil