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We present GiRaFFE, the first open-source general relativistic force-free electrodynamics (GRFFE) code for dynamical, numerical-relativity generated spacetimes. GiRaFFE adopts the strategy pioneered by McKinney and modified by Paschalidis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Zachariah B. Etienne , Mew-Bing Wan , Maria C. Babiuc , Sean T. McWilliams , Ashok Choudhary

Modern astrophysical simulations aim to accurately model an ever-growing array of physical processes, including the interaction of fluids with magnetic fields, under increasingly stringent performance and scalability requirements driven by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 Thomas Guillet , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

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 construct a new Godunov type relativistic hydrodynamics code in Milne coordinates, using a Riemann solver based on the two-shock approximation which is stable under the existence of large shock waves. We check the correctness of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-18 Kazuhisa Okamoto , Yukinao Akamatsu , Chiho Nonaka

We propose a constraint preserving discontinuous Galerkin method for ideal compressible MHD in two dimensions and using Cartesian grids, which automatically maintains the global divergence-free property. The approximation of the magnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Praveen Chandrashekar , Rakesh Kumar

We present MHDuet, an open source evolution code for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with neutrino transport. The code solves the full set of Einstein equations coupled to a relativistic, magnetized fluid with an M1 neutrino…

High-order Godunov methods for gas dynamics have become a standard tool for simulating different classes of astrophysical flows. Their accuracy is mostly determined by the spatial interpolant used to reconstruct the pair of Riemann states…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 G. Leidi , R. Andrassy , W. Barsukow , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. K. Röpke

We model the structure and evolution of black hole accretion disks, and their neighboring regions, using numerical simulations. The numerics is governed by the equations of general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD). In particular,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-25 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis , Jeremy Mortier , Ireneusz Janiuk

We present a second-order upwind numerical scheme for equations of relativistic hydrodynamics with a source term. A new non-linear Riemann solver is constructed. Solution of a Riemann problem on a cells boundary is based on exact relations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-20 Pavlo V. Tytarenko , Iurii A. Karpenko , Yury M. Sinyukov

General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have revolutionized our understanding of black hole accretion. Here, we present a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated GRMHD code \hammer{} with multi-faceted optimizations…

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We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

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Motivated by a geometric method employed for the derivation of the Nambu bracket for ideal two-dimensional incompressible hydrodynamics, we reconstruct the reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) model by a priori imposition of its conservation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

A new magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code based on initial value approach, GMEC_I, has been developed for simulating various MHD physics in tokamak plasmas, as the MHD foundation of the gyrokinetic-MHD energetic particle simulation code (GMEC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 P. Y. Jiang , Z. Y. Liu , S. Y. Liu , J. Bao , G. Y. Fu

It has been recognized that magnetic reconnection process is of great importance in high-energy astrophysics. We develop a new two-dimensional relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamic (R$^2$MHD) code, and carry out numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoyuki Watanabe , Takaaki Yokoyama

In this paper we study the problem of divergence-free numerical MHD and show that the work done so far still has four key unresolved issues. We resolve those issues in this paper. The problem of reconstructing MHD flow variables with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara

In this work, we introduce a framework to design multidimensional Riemann solvers for nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws on general unstructured polygonal Voronoi-like tessellations. In this framework we propose two simple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Elena Gaburro , Mario Ricchiuto , Michael Dumbser

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

We describe a high-order numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver built upon a novel non-linear entropy stable numerical flux function that supports eight travelling wave solutions. By construction the solver conserves mass, momentum,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-13 Dominik Derigs , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch

We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Boris Daszuta , William Cook