Three-dimensional adaptive evolution of gravitational waves in numerical relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Adaptive techniques are crucial for successful numerical modeling of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources such as coalescing compact binaries, since the radiation typically has wavelengths much larger than the scale of the sources. We have carried out an important step toward this goal, the evolution of weak gravitational waves using adaptive mesh refinement in the Einstein equations. The 2-level adaptive simulation is compared with unigrid runs at coarse and fine resolution, and is shown to track closely the features of the fine grid run.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0007045,
title = {Three-dimensional adaptive evolution of gravitational waves in numerical relativity},
author = {Kimberly C. B. New and Dae-Il Choi and Joan M. Centrella and Peter MacNeice and Mijan F. Huq and Kevin Olson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0007045},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
REVTeX, 7 pages, including three figures; submitted to Physical Review D