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Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

The paper describes an explicit multi-dimensional numerical scheme for Special Relativistic Two-Fluid Magnetohydrodynamics of electron-positron plasma and a suit of test problems. The scheme utilizes Cartesian grid and the third order WENO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Maxim Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov , Vitaly Korolev , Andrey Zankovich

Hot, diffuse, relativistic plasmas such as sub-Eddington black hole accretion flows are expected to be collisionless, yet are commonly modeled as a fluid using ideal general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). Dissipative effects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Mani Chandra , Francois Foucart , Charles F. Gammie

A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It combines higher-order Godunov methods with the constrained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner , Peter Teuben , John F. Hawley , Jacob B. Simon

I have developed two numerical codes to investigate the dynamics of collapsars. One is two-dimensional MHD code that are performed using the Newtonian (ZEUS-2D) code where realistic equation of state, neutrino cooling and heating processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-06 S. Nagataki

We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. Like the fixed-spacetime GRMHD solver, we use standard finite-volume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Jacob Fields , Hengrui Zhu , David Radice , James M. Stone , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Boris Daszuta

Waves launched from the neutron star surface or inner magnetosphere propagate through the magnetosphere as small perturbations, but can grow relative to the background magnetic field and steepen into ``monster shocks'' -- ultra-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Michael P. Grehan , Bart Ripperda , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Christopher Thompson , Elias R. Most

In this article, we consider the 3D-rotating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system when the initial velocity and magnetic field both feature some 2D-part (i.-e. depending only on the horizontal space variables). We prove for weak and strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Frédéric Charve , Van-Sang Ngo

Black hole (BH) accretion flows and jets are dynamic hot relativistic magnetized plasma flows whose radiative opacity can significantly affect flow structure and behavior. We describe a numerical scheme, tests, and an astrophysically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan C. McKinney , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

We present a linear analysis of inviscid, incompressible, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shallow water systems. In spherical geometry, a generic property of such systems is the existence of five wave modes. Three of them (two magneto-Poincare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Kevin Heng , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We investigate the space-time dependence of electromagnetic fields produced by charged participants in an expanding fluid. To address this problem, we need to solve the Maxwell's equations coupled to the hydrodynamics conservation equation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-23 Ashutosh Dash , Ankit Kumar Panda

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

We study the relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly and dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely Chiral MagnetoHydroDynamics (CMHD). We formulate CMHD as a low-energy effective theory based on a generalized derivative expansion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Koichi Hattori , Yuji Hirono , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

Polarisation measurements by the Event Horizon Telescope from M87$^{\ast}$ and Sgr A$^\ast$ suggest that there is a dynamically strong, ordered magnetic field, typical of what is expected of a magnetically arrested accretion disk (MAD). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-29 León Salas , Gibwa Musoke , Koushik Chatterjee , Sera Markoff , Oliver Porth , Matthew Liska , Bart Ripperda

We here present a new version of the publicly available general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code $\texttt{Spritz}$, which now includes an approximate neutrino leakage scheme able to handle neutrino cooling and heating. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-08 Federico Cipolletta , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Bruno Giacomazzo , Riccardo Ciolfi , Lorenzo Sala , Beatrice Giudici

We present GRaM-X (General Relativistic accelerated Magnetohydrodynamics on AMReX), a new GPU-accelerated dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code which extends the GRMHD capability of Einstein Toolkit to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Steven R. Brandt , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter , Yannick de Graaf

Resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RRMHD) simulations are applied to investigate the system evolution of relativistic magnetic reconnection. A time-split Harten--Lan--van Leer method is employed. Under a localized resistivity, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-07 Seiji Zenitani , Michael Hesse , Alex Klimas

The three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) isentropic flow with zero magnetic diffusivity is studied. The vanishing magnetic diffusivity causes significant difficulties due to the loss of dissipation of the magnetic field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Xiaoli Li , Ning Su , Dehua Wang

Highly relativistic jets are most probably driven by strong magnetic fields and are launched from the accretion disk surrounding a central black hole. In this paper we review some of our recent results considering the two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Fendt

We extend recently-developed mesh-free Lagrangian methods for numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to arbitrary anisotropic diffusion equations, including: passive scalar diffusion, Spitzer-Braginskii conduction and viscosity, cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Philip F. Hopkins