Numerical experiments of adjusted BSSN systems for controlling constraint violations

Details Numerical experiments of adjusted BSSN systems for controlling constraint violations Numerical experiments of adjusted BSSN systems for controlling constraint violations

2007-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/0711.3575v2

Phys.Rev.D77:044010,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

to be published in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.044010

We present our numerical comparisons between the BSSN formulation widely used in numerical relativity today and its adjusted versions using constraints. We performed three testbeds: gauge-wave, linear wave, and Gowdy-wave tests, proposed by the Mexico workshop on the formulation problem of the Einstein equations. We tried three kinds of adjustments, which were previously proposed from the analysis of the constraint propagation equations, and investigated how they improve the accuracy and stability of evolutions. We observed that the signature of the proposed Lagrange multipliers are always right and the adjustments improve the convergence and stability of the simulations. When the original BSSN system already shows satisfactory good evolutions (e.g., linear wave test), the adjusted versions also coincide with those evolutions; while in some cases (e.g., gauge-wave or Gowdy-wave tests) the simulations using the adjusted systems last 10 times as long as those using the original BSSN equations. Our demonstrations imply a potential to construct a robust evolution system against constraint violations even in highly dynamical situations.

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