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We describe an extension of the cosmological hydrodynamics code ENZO to include the self-consistent transport of ionizing radiation modeled in the flux-limited diffusion approximation. A novel feature of our algorithm is a coupled implicit…

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In this work, we introduce GRChombo: a new numerical relativity code which incorporates full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) using block structured Berger-Rigoutsos grid generation. The code supports non-trivial "many-boxes-in-many-boxes"…

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We present a new code, SCALAR, based on the high-resolution hydrodynamics and N-body code RAMSES, to solve the Schr\"odinger equation on adaptive refined meshes. The code is intended to be used to simulate axion or fuzzy dark matter models…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Mattia Mina , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

We report on the development of a computational framework for the parallel, mesh-adaptive solution of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws like the time-dependent Euler equations in compressible gas dynamics or Magneto-Hydrodynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dreher , R. Grauer

We study cosmological structure formation with ultralight axion dark matter, or "fuzzy dark matter (FDM), using a particle-mesh scheme to account for the quantum pressure arising in the Madelung formulation of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Jan Veltmaat , Jens C. Niemeyer

In this paper, we describe a method designed to add precision to radiation simulations in the adaptive mesh refinement cosmological hydrodynamics code ENZO. We build upon the geometric correction factor described in \textit{ENZO+MORAY:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Collin Cunningham

We present a novel solver for an analogue to Poisson's equation in the framework of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). This equation is highly non-linear and hence standard codes based upon tree structures and/or FFT's in general are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claudio Llinares , Alexander Knebe , HongSheng Zhao

The use of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques is crucial for accurate and efficient simulation of higher dimensional spacetimes. In this work we develop an adaptive algorithm tailored to the integration of finite difference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Frans Pretorius , Luis Lehner

Gravitational instabilities naturally give rise to multi-scale structure, which is difficult for traditional Eulerian hydrodynamic methods to accurately evolve. This can be circumvented by adaptively adding resolution (in the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Bryan , M. L. Norman

We compare two different codes for simulations of cosmological structure formation to investigate the sensitivity of hydrodynamical instabilities to numerics, in particular, the hydro solver and the application of adaptive mesh refinement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 W. Schmidt , J. Schulz , L. Iapichino , F. Vazza , A. S. Almgren

We apply a novel method with machine learning to calibrate sub-grid models within numerical simulation codes to achieve convergence with observations and between different codes. It utilizes active learning and neural density estimators.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-07 Boon Kiat Oh , Hongjun An , Eun-jin Shin , Ji-hoon Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

We have developed a simulation code with the techniques which enhance both spatial and time resolution of the PM method for which the spatial resolution is restricted by the spacing of structured mesh. The adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hideki Yahagi , Yuzuru Yoshii

We describe the development of a flux-limited gray radiation solver for the compressible astrophysics code, CASTRO. CASTRO uses an Eulerian grid with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement based on a nested hierarchy of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Zhang , L. Howell , A. Almgren , A. Burrows , J. Bell

We describe a newly developed cosmological hydrodynamics code based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. High order finite difference WENO schemes are designed for problems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Long-Long Feng , Chi-Wang Shu , Meng-Ping Zhang

We present a detailed comparison between two adaptive numerical approaches to solve partial differential equations (PDEs), adaptive multiresolution (MR) and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). Both discretizations are based on finite volumes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Ralf Deiterding , Margarete O. Domingues , Sonia M. Gomes , Kai Schneider

We present the newly developed code, GAMER (GPU-accelerated Adaptive MEsh Refinement code), which has adopted a novel approach to improve the performance of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) astrophysical simulations by a large factor with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 Hsi-Yu Schive , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

The theory and application of numerical methods for unstructured meshes have been improved significantly in recent years. Because the grids can be place arbitrarily in space, unstructured meshes can provide much higher spatial resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guohong Xu

I survey the use and impact of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations in numerical astrophysics and cosmology. Two basic techniques are in use to extend the dynamic range of Eulerian grid simulations in multi-dimensions: cell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Norman

A high order one-step ADER-WENO finite volume scheme with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) in multiple space dimensions is presented. A high order one-step time discretization is achieved using a local space-time discontinuous Galerkin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-27 Olindo Zanotti , Michael Dumbser , Arturo Hidalgo , Dinshaw Balsara

We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD and RMHD). The current release exploits, in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mignone , C. Zanni , P. Tzeferacos , B. van Straalen , P. Colella , G. Bodo