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We develop a formalism for the identification and accurate estimation of the strength of structure formation shocks during cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Shocks not only play a decisive role for the thermalization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Martin Jubelgas

With the advance of supercomputers we can now afford simulations with very large ranges of scales. In astrophysical applications, e.g. simulating Solar, stellar and planetary atmospheres, interstellar medium, etc; physical quantities, like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Andrius Popovas

One of the key questions to understanding the efficiency of diffusive shock acceleration of the cosmic rays (CRs) is the injection process from thermal particles. A self-consistent injection model based on the interactions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. D. J. Gieseler , T. W. Jones , Hyesung Kang

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of large scale structure in the universe have shown that accretion shocks and merger shocks form due to flow motions associated with the gravitational collapse of nonlinear structures. Estimated speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

Cosmological shock waves during structure formation not only play a decisive role for the thermalization of gas in virializing structures but also for the acceleration of relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) through diffusive shock acceleration.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Martin Jubelgas

In physically inviscid fluid dynamics, "shock capturing" methods adopt either an artificial viscosity contribution or an appropriate Riemann solver algorithm. These techniques are necessary to solve the strictly hyperbolic Euler equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Lanzafame

The paper proposes a way to control the viscosity of numerical approximation in the contact SPH method. This variant of SPH contains momentum and energy fluxes in the right-hand sides of the equations, which are calculated using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 A. N. Parshikov , S. A. Medin , G. D. Rublev , S. A. Dyachkov

The diffuse medium in and around galaxies can exist in a multi-phase state: small, cold gas clouds contributing significantly to the total mass embedded in pressure equilibrium with a hotter, more diffuse volume-filling component. Modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

We present a new algorithm for solving ideal relativistic hydrodynamics based on Godunov method with an exact solution of Riemann problem for an arbitrary equation of state. Standard numerical tests are executed, such as the sound wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Zuzana Feckova , Boris Tomasik

We introduce CRK-HACC, an extension of the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC), to resolve gas hydrodynamics in large-scale structure formation simulations of the universe. The new framework couples the HACC gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Nicholas Frontiere , J. D. Emberson , Michael Buehlmann , Joseph Adamo , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère

We have developed a method of solving for multi-species chemical reaction flows in non--equilibrium and self--consistently with the hydrodynamic equations in an expanding FLRW universe. The method is based on a backward differencing scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Peter Anninos , Yu Zhang , Tom Abel , Michael L. Norman

We present the results of standard one-dimensional test problems in relativistic hydrodynamics using Glimm's (random choice) method, and compare them to results obtained using finite differencing methods. For problems containing profiles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Cannizzo , N. Gehrels , E. T. Vishniac

Collisionless plasma shocks are efficient sources of non-thermal particle acceleration in space and astrophysical systems. We use hybrid (kinetic ions -- fluid electrons) simulations to examine the non-linear feedback of the self-generated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Colby C. Haggerty , Damiano Caprioli

The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This wave-mechanical representation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Coles , Kate Spencer

A numerical scheme that incorporates a thermal leakage injection model into a combined gas dynamics and cosmic ray (CR, hereafter) diffusion-convection code has been developed. The particle injection is followed numerically by filtering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , U. D. J. Gieseler

We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CRs) on galactic outflows from a multi-phase interstellar medium with solar neighbourhood conditions. The three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations include CRs as a relativistic fluid in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Michał Hanasz , Stefanie Walch

This paper deals with the waves speed averaging impact impact on Godunov type schemes for linear scalar hyperbolic equations with discontinuous coefficients. In many numerical schemes of Godunov type used in fluid dynamics, electromagnetic,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Lakhdar Remaki

Godunov-type methods, which obtain numerical fluxes through local Riemann problems at cell interfaces, are among the most fundamental and widely used numerical methods in computational fluid dynamics. Exact Riemann solvers faithfully solve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Yucheng Zhang , Chayanon Wichitrnithed , Shukai Cai , Sourav Dutta , Kyle Mandli , Clint Dawson

Simple modifications for higher-order Godunov-type difference schemes are presented which allow for accurate advection of multi-fluid flows in hydrodynamic simulations. The constraint that the sum of all mass fractions has to be equal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tomasz Plewa , Ewald Mueller

We consider cosmic ray (CR) modified shocks with both streaming and diffusion in the two-fluid description. Previously, numerical codes were unable to incorporate streaming in this demanding regime, and have never been compared against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , S. Peng Oh , Yan-Fei Jiang