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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

Simulations of binary black hole systems using the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC) are done on a computational domain that excises the regions inside the black holes. It is imperative that the excision boundaries are outflow boundaries with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 Daniel A. Hemberger , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Béla Szilágyi , Geoffrey Lovelace , Nicholas W. Taylor , Saul A. Teukolsky

We describe an explicit in time, finite-difference code designed to simulate black holes by using the excision method. The code is based upon the harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations and incorporates several features regarding the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Bela Szilagyi , Denis Pollney , Luciano Rezzolla , Jonathan Thornburg , Jeffrey Winicour

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

Implicit solvers present strong limitations when used on supercomputing facilities and in particular for adaptive mesh-refinement codes. We present a new method for implicit adaptive time-stepping on adaptive mesh refinement-grids. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Benoit Commercon , Vincent Debout , Romain Teyssier

We present and explore a new shock-capturing particle hydrodynamics approach. Our starting point is a commonly used discretization of smoothed particle hydrodynamics. We enhance this discretization with Roe's approximate Riemann solver, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 S. Rosswog

General relativistic Riemann solvers are typically complex, fragile and unwieldy, at least in comparison to their special relativistic counterparts. In this paper, we present a new high-resolution shock-capturing algorithm on curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim , James Juno , Jason M. TenBarge

This paper is concerned exclusively with axisymmetric spacetimes. We want to develop reductions of Einstein's equations which are suitable for numerical evolutions. We first make a Kaluza-Klein type dimensional reduction followed by an ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-22 Oliver Rinne , John M. Stewart

A new representation of the Einstein evolution equations is presented that is first order, linearly degenerate, and symmetric hyperbolic. This new system uses the generalized harmonic method to specify the coordinates, and exponentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Lee Lindblom , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Robert Owen , Oliver Rinne

We develop a combined hydro-kinetic approach which incorporates a hydrodynamical expansion of the systems formed in \textit{A}+\textit{A} collisions and their dynamical decoupling described by escape probabilities. The method corresponds to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Akkelin , Y. Hama , Iu. A. Karpenko , Yu. M. Sinyukov

We have proposed a new High Resolution Shock Capturing (HRSC) scheme for Special Relativistic Hydrodynamics (SRHD) based on the semidiscrete central Godunov-type schemes and a modified Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory (WENO) data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanvir Rahman , R. B. Moore

Central schemes for conservation laws are Riemann solver free methods which are simple and easy to implement. In recent work for Euler equations [Kurganov & Xin, J. Sci. Comput., 96:56, 2023] their accuracy has been enhanced in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yu-Chen Cheng , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

Transmission Electron Microscopy enables high-resolution imaging of materials, but the resulting images are difficult to interpret directly. One way to address this is exit wave reconstruction, i.e., the recovery of the complex-valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Moussa Atwi , Benjamin Berkels

A general procedure to construct a class of simple and efficient high resolution Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) schemes for non-linear hyperbolic conservation laws by introducing anti-diffusive terms with the flux limiters is presented.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ritesh Kumar , M. K. Kadalbajoo

We evolve a scalar field in a fixed Kerr-Schild background geometry to test simple $(3+1)$-dimensional algorithms for singularity excision. We compare both centered and upwind schemes for handling the shift (advection) terms, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Yo , T. W. Baumgarte , S. L. Shapiro

Hydrodynamical simulations are the most accurate way to model structure formation in the universe, but they often involve a large number of astrophysical parameters modeling subgrid physics, in addition to cosmological parameters. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukic

In this article we develop a Primitive Variable Recovery Scheme (PVRS) to solve any system of coupled differential conservative equations. This method obtains directly the primitive variables applying the chain rule to the time term of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 A. Aguayo-Ortiz , S. Mendoza , D. Olvera

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

In this paper, we develop bound-preserving (BP) finite-volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws on adaptive moving meshes. For scalar conservative laws, we rewrite the conventional high-order discretization as a convex combination of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yaguang Gu , Guanghui Hu , Tao Tang

We present a novel positive kinetic scheme built on the efficient collide-and-stream algorithm of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to address hyperbolic conservation laws. We focus on the compressible Euler equations with strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Gauthier Wissocq , Yongle Liu , Rémi Abgrall