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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 GRAMSES, a new pipeline for nonlinear cosmological $N$-body simulations in General Relativity (GR). This code adopts the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formalism of GR, with constant mean curvature and minimum distortion gauge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-24 Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Baojiu Li

To date, fully cosmological hydrodynamic disk simulations to redshift zero have only been undertaken with particle-based codes, such as GADGET, Gasoline, or GCD+. In light of the (supposed) limitations of traditional implementations of…

We implemented sink particles in the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) code FLASH to model the gravitational collapse and accretion in turbulent molecular clouds and cores. Sink particles are frequently used to measure properties of star…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee , Daniel Seifried , Paul C. Clark , Ralf S. Klessen

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) offers a practical solution to reduce the computational cost and memory requirement of numerical simulations that use computational meshes. In this work, we introduce a novel smart methodology for adaptive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-23 Akash A. Patel , Masoud Safdari

Computational studies that use block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) approaches suffer from unnecessarily high mesh resolution in regions adjacent to important solution features. This deficiency limits the performance of AMR…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Brandon Gusto , Tomasz Plewa

We present a dual-resolution molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of liquid water employing a recently introduced Adaptive Resolution Scheme (AdResS). The spatially adaptive molecular resolution procedure allows for changing from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-10 Silvina Matysiak , Cecilia Clementi , Matej Praprotnik , Kurt Kremer , Luigi Delle Site

We present a fourth-order projection method with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) for numerically solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE) with subcycling in time. Our method features (i) a reformulation of INSE so that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Shubo Zhao , Qinghai Zhang

We present a new polynomial-free prolongation scheme for Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulations of compressible and incompressible computational fluid dynamics. The new method is constructed using a multi-dimensional kernel-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Steven I. Reeves , Dongwook Lee , Adam Reyes , Carlo Graziani , Petros Tzeferacos

Numerical simulations of flow and transport in porous media usually rely on hybrid-dimensional models, i.e., the fracture is considered as objects of a lower dimension compared to the embedding matrix. Such models are usually combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola , Marco Favino

We present a new implementation of the SFUMATO code, called SFUMATO#, for solving self-gravitational radiation hydrodynamics problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) with the CUDA/HIP programming frameworks. The code incorporates a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 Hajime Fukushima , Tomoaki Matsumoto

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) enables efficient computation of flows by providing high resolution in critical regions while allowing for coarsening in areas where fine detail is unnecessary. While early AMR software packages relied solely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer Essel , Pierre Sullivan

We investigate the Hierarchical Gravitational Fragmentation scenario through numerical simulations of the prestellar stages of the collapse of a marginally gravitationally unstable isothermal sphere immersed in a strongly gravitationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-26 Raúl Naranjo-Romero , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Robert M. Loughnane

This work is focused on the extension and assessment of the monotonicity-preserving scheme in [3] and the local bounds preserving scheme in [5] to hierarchical octree adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). Whereas the former can readily be used on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jesus Bonilla , Santiago Badia

Self-gravity plays an important role in the evolution of rotationally supported systems such as protoplanetary disks, accretion disks around black holes, or galactic disks, as it can both feed turbulence or lead to gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel

Numerical effects are known to plague adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) codes when treating massive particles, e.g. representing massive black holes (MBHs). In an evolving background, they can experience strong, spurious perturbations and then…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Alessandro Lupi , Francesco Haardt , Massimo Dotti

A self-similar formalism for the study of the gravitational collapse of molecular gas provides an important theoretical framework from which to explore the dynamics of star formation. Motivated by the presence of elongated and filamentary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lisa Holden , Kevin Hoppins , Benjamin Baxter , Marco Fatuzzo

The physical characteristics and evolution of a large-scale helium plume are examined through a series of numerical simulations with increasing physical resolution using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The five simulations each model a 1~m…

Solving the Euler equations of ideal hydrodynamics as accurately and efficiently as possible is a key requirement in many astrophysical simulations. It is therefore important to continuously advance the numerical methods implemented in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-02 Kevin Schaal , Andreas Bauer , Praveen Chandrashekar , Rüdiger Pakmor , Christian Klingenberg , Volker Springel

We describe and demonstrate a method for increasing the resolution locally in a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) simulation, by splitting particles. We show that in simulations of self-gravitating collapse (of the sort which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Kitsionas , A. P. Whitworth
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