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Strong gravity in the immediate vicinity of compact objects (e.g., black holes, neutron stars) necessitates inclusion of general relativistic effects. Traditionally, pseudo-Newtonian potential representation of gravity were favored to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Sudip K Garain , Pranayjit Dey

We assess the suitability of a recent high-resolution central scheme developed by Kurganov & Tadmor (2000) for the solution of the relativistic hydrodynamics equations. The novelty of this approach relies on the absence of Riemann solvers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arturo Lucas-Serrano , Jose A. Font , Jose M. Ibanez , Jose M. Marti

We consider the relativistic hydrodynamics of non-perfect fluids with the goal of determining a formulation that is suited for numerical integration in special-relativistic and general-relativistic scenarios. To this end, we review the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla , Dirk H. Rischke

We investigate the possibility to approximate relativistic effects in hydrodynamical simulations of stellar core collapse and post-bounce evolution by using a modified gravitational potential in an otherwise standard Newtonian hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Marek , H. Dimmelmeier , H. -Th. Janka , E. Mueller , R. Buras

We present an alternative method to estimate the numerical viscosity in simulations of astrophysical objects, which is based in the damping of fluid oscillations. We apply the method to general relativistic hydrodynamic simulations using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Pablo Cerdá-Durán

In this paper, the second in a series, we document the algorithms and solvers for compressible nonrelativistic hydrodynamics implemented in GenASiS (General Astrophysical Simulation System)---a new code being developed initially and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Christian Y. Cardall , Reuben D. Budiardja , Eirik Endeve , Anthony Mezzacappa

Computational gas dynamics has become a prominent research field both in astrophysics and cosmology. In the first part of this review we intend to briefly describe several of the numerical methods used in this field, discuss their range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-24 A. Hujeirat , B. W. Keil , F. Heitsch

An implicit algorithm for solving the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics in conservative form in three-dimensional axi-symmetry is presented. This algorithm is a direct extension of the pseudo-Newtonian implicit radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ahmad Hujeirat , Max Camenzind , Bernhard W. Keil

We present a novel spectral solver for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on dynamical spacetimes. By combining a high order discontinuous spectral method on mapped Chebyshev Fourier grids, our scheme attains exponential convergence.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Beibei Li

In this paper, we present an approach to solving the Riemann problem in one-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics, where the most computationally expensive steps of the exact solver are replaced by compact, highly specialized neural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Carlo Musolino

We propose an explicit-implicit scheme for numerically solving Special Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamic (RRHD) equations, which ensures a conservation of total energy and momentum (matter and radiation). In our scheme, 0th and 1st moment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tomida

We develop a numerical hydrodynamics code using a pseudo-Newtonian formulation that uses the weak field approximation for the geometry, and a generalized source term for the Poisson equation that takes into account relativistic effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinho Kim , Hee Il Kim , Matthew William Choptuik , Hyung Mok Lee

We present the derivation of hydrodynamical equations for a perfect fluid in General Relativity, within the 3+1 decomposition of spacetime framework, using only primitive variables. Primitive variables are opposed to conserved variables, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 Gaël Servignat , Jerome Novak , Isabel Cordero-Carrión

We re-derive hydrodynamical equations in General Relativity (GR) in the comoving reference frame for spherical symmetry and obtain from them the well-known but not explicitly derived Lagrangean equations in Special Relativity (SR), that is,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Urzhumov

The objective of this work is to revisit fundamental aspects of relativistic hydrodynamics, aiming at the construction of a first course in relativistic hydrodynamics and its applications to astrophysics at the level of end of undergraduate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-17 R. F. Santos , A. C. Amaro Faria , L. G. Almeida

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Dongsu Ryu

We review various approaches to approximating general relativistic effects in hydrodynamic simulations of stellar core collapse and post-bounce evolution. Different formulations of a modified Newtonian gravitational potential are presented.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Harald Dimmelmeier , Pablo Cerda-Duran , Andreas Marek , Guillaume Faye

This review is a short introduction to numerical hydrodynamics in a cosmological context, intended for the non specialist. The main processes relevant to galaxy formation are first presented. The fluid equations are then introduced, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Tormen

In this paper, we have solved 1D special relativistic hydrodynamical equations using different numerical method in computational gas dynamics. The numerical solutions of these equations for smooth wave cases give better solution when we use…

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

There is great interest in numerical relativity simulations involving matter due to the likelihood that binary compact objects involving neutron stars will be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, as well as to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens