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In many numerical implementations of the Cauchy formulation of Einstein's field equations one encounters artificial boundaries which raises the issue of specifying boundary conditions. Such conditions have to be chosen carefully. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-06 Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach

The focus of this work is on the construction of a family of nonlinear absorbing boundary conditions for the Westervelt equation in one and two space dimensions. The principal ingredient used in the design of such conditions is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Igor Shevchenko

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations in the maximal gauge, or more generally, in a gauge where the mean curvature of a timelike foliation is fixed near the boundary. We prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici

A review of the treatment of boundaries in general relativity is presented with the emphasis on application to the formulations of Einstein's equations used in numerical relativity. At present, it is known how to treat boundaries in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeffrey Winicour

We investigate the properties of a fairly large class of boundary conditions for the linearised Einstein equations in the Riemannian setting, ones which generalise the linearised counterpart of boundary conditions proposed by Anderson.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Matteo Capoferri , Simone Murro , Gabriel Schmid

Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein's equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well-posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Bela Szilagyi , Jeffrey Winicour

We devise a new high order local absorbing boundary condition (ABC) for radiating problems and scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from obstacles of arbitrary shape. By introducing an artificial boundary $S$ enclosing the scatterer,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Vianey Villamizar , Sebastian Acosta , Blake Dastrup

Errors due to imperfect boundary conditions in numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes can produce unphysical reflections of gravitational waves which compromise the accuracy of waveform predictions, especially for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Luisa T. Buchman , Matthew D. Duez , Marlo Morales , Mark A. Scheel , Tim M. Kostersitz , Andrew M. Evans , Keefe Mitman

We linearize the Einstein equations when the metric is Bondi-Sachs, when the background is Schwarzschild or Minkowski, and when there is a matter source in the form of a thin shell whose density varies with time and angular position. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nigel T. Bishop

In the framework of the optimal wave energy absorption, we solve theoretically and numerically a parametric shape optimization problem to find the optimal distribution of absorbing material in the reflexive one defined by a characteristic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Frederic Magoules , Mathieu Menoux , Anna Rozanova-Pierrat

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein equations in a first-order generalized harmonic formulation. We impose boundary conditions that preserve the constraints and control the incoming gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-22 Oliver Rinne

Specifying boundary conditions continues to be a challenge in numerical relativity in order to obtain a long time convergent numerical simulation of Einstein's equations in domains with artificial boundaries. In this paper, we address this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas N. Arnold , Nicolae Tarfulea

We exploit an arbitrary extrinsic time foliation of spacetime to solve the constraints in spherically symmetric general relativity. Among such foliations there is a one parameter family, linear and homogeneous in the extrinsic curvature,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jemal Guven , Niall O Murchadha

The Sommerfeld boundary conditions, applied to an asymptotically weak gravitational field, are shown to imply that the 1/r part of the curvature tensor of a space-time, satisfying the Einstein equations, is of type null in the Petrov…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Andrzej Trautman

We present a new method of extracting gravitational radiation from three-dimensional numerical relativity codes and providing outer boundary conditions. Our approach matches the solution of a Cauchy evolution of Einstein's equations to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Rupright , A. M. Abrahams , L. Rezzolla

For an arbitrary strong, spherically symmetric super-horizon curvature perturbation, we present analytical solutions of the Einstein equations in terms of asymptotic expansion over the ratio of the Hubble radius to the length-scale of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 A. G. Polnarev , Tomohiro Nakama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

In the harmonic description of general relativity, the principle part of Einstein equations reduces to a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. We use the pseudo-differential theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 H. -O. Kreiss , J. Winicour

The results on the initial boundary value problem for Einstein's vacuum field equation obtained in \cite{friedrich:nagy} rely on an unusual gauge. One of the defining gauge source functions represents the mean extrinsic curvature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Helmut Friedrich

We propose an adaptive approach in picking the wave-number parameter of absorbing boundary conditions for Schr\"{o}dinger-type equations. Based on the Gabor transform which captures local frequency information in the vicinity of artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Zhenli Xu , Houde Han , Xiaonan Wu

It has long been known how to construct radiation boundary conditions for the time dependent wave equation. Although arguments suggesting that they are accurate have been given, it is only recently that rigorous error bounds have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-11-06 Charles Siegel , Avy Soffer , Chris Stucchio