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We simulate the dynamics of the interaction between relativistically expanding spherically symmetric shells using a 1-dimensional hydrodynamic code and calculate spectra and light-curves arising from such collisions by integrating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

Due to the limited cell resolution in the representation of flow variables, a piecewise continuous initial reconstruction with discontinuous jump at a cell interface is usually used in modern computational fluid dynamics methods. Starting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Kun Xu , Quanhua Sun , Pubing Yu

A recently introduced two-phase flow model by Chun Shen is studied in this work. The model is derived to describe the dynamics of immersed water bubbles in liquid water as carrier. Several assumptions are made to obtain a reduced form of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-03 Abdul Rab

The shallow water equations are numerically solved to simulate free surface flows. The convective flux terms in the shallow water equations need to be discretized using a Riemann solver to capture shocks and discontinuity for certain flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 D. Satyaprasad , Soumendra Nath Kuiry , S. Sundar

The idea of this work is to compare a new positive and entropy stable approximate Riemann solver by Francois Bouchut with a state-of the-art algorithm for astrophysical fluid dynamics. We implemented the new Riemann solver into an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian Klingenberg , Wolfram Schmidt , Knut Waagan

We present a study of the intermediate regime between ultra-relativistic and nonrelativistic flow for gamma-ray burst afterglows. The hydrodynamics of spherically symmetric blast waves is numerically calculated using the AMRVAC adaptive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-03 H. J. van Eerten , K. Leventis , Z. Meliani , R. A. M. J. Wijers

We present \texttt{SACRA-2D}, a new MPI and OpenMP parallelized, fully relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) code in dynamical spacetime under axial symmetry with the cartoon method using the finite-volume shock-capturing schemes for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Masaru Shibata

This paper describes a multidimensional hydrodynamic code which can be used for the studies of relativistic astrophysical flows. The code solves the special relativistic hydrodynamic equations as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez , Refik Kayali

The HLLC Riemann solver, which resolves both the shock waves and contact discontinuities, is popular to the computational fluid dynamics community studying compressible flow problems with mesh methods. Although it was reported to be used in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-13 Z. H. Ma , H. Wang , L. Qian

Geometrical shock dynamics, also called CCW theory, yields approximate equations for shock propagation in which only the conditions at the shock appear explicitly; the post-shock flow is presumed approximately uniform and enters implicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeremy Goodman , Andrew I. MacFadyen

We propose a robust approximate solver for the hydro-elastoplastic solid material, a general constitutive law extensively applied in explosion and high speed impact dynamics, and provide a natural transformation between the fluid and solid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Ruo Li , Yanli Wang , Chengbao Yao

While exact and approximate Riemann solvers are widely used, they exhibit two fundamental limitations: 1) Fail to represent continuous entropy transport processes, resulting in thermodynamic incompatibility that limits their applicability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Zhixin Huo

The lattice Boltzmann method, now widely used for a variety of applications, has also been extended to model multi-phase flows through different formulations. While already applied to many different configurations in the low Weber and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-02 S. A. Hosseini , H. Safari , D. Thévenin

We study the classical problem of planar shock refraction at an oblique density discontinuity, separating two gases at rest. When the shock impinges on the density discontinuity, it refracts and in the hydrodynamical case 3 signals arise.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Delmont , R. Keppens , B. van der Holst

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is successfully used to study magnetized plasmas. However, this requires large computational costs and limits simulations to short physical run-times and often to setups in less than three spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-24 Rouven Lemmerz , Mohamad Shalaby , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

The simulation of geometrically resolved rigid particles in a fluid relies on coupling algorithms to transfer momentum both ways between the particles and the fluid. In this article, the fluid flow is modeled with a parallel Lattice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-22 Lukas Werner , Christoph Rettinger , Ulrich Rüde

Astrophysical relativistic flow problems require high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. In this paper, we describe a new parallel three-dimensional code for simulations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Weiqun Zhang

Multidimensional shock-capturing numerical schemes for special relativistic hydrodynamics (RHD) are computationally more expensive than their correspondent Euler versions, due to the nonlinear relations between conservative and primitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Del Zanna , N. Bucciantini

We report on the development of a test-particle based kinetic Monte Carlo code for large systems and its application to simulate matter in the continuum regime. Our code combines advantages of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-31 Irina Sagert , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Terrance Strother

We describe a numerical scheme for studying time-dependent, multifluid, magnetohydrodynamic shock waves in weakly ionized interstellar clouds and cores. Shocks are modeled as propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field and consist of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Glenn E. Ciolek , Wayne G. Roberge