An Adaptive Grid, Implicit Code for Spherically Symmetric, General Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Comoving Coordinates

Details An Adaptive Grid, Implicit Code for Spherically Symmetric, General Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Comoving Coordinates An Adaptive Grid, Implicit Code for Spherically Symmetric, General Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Comoving Coordinates

2001-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106539v2

Astrophys.J.Suppl.141:229-246,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

38 pages, including 9 figures, new title, extended comparison, ApJS, in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/339872

We describe an implicit general relativistic hydrodynamics code. The evolution equations are formulated in comoving coordinates. A conservative finite differencing of the Einstein equations is outlined, and artificial viscosity and numerical diffusion are discussed. The time integration is performed with AGILE, an implicit solver for stiff algebrodifferential equations on a dynamical adaptive grid. We extend the adaptive grid technique, known from nonrelativistic hydrodynamics, to the general relativistic application and identify it with the concept of shift vectors in a 3+1 decomposition. The adaptive grid minimizes the number of required computational zones without compromising the resolution in physically important regions. Thus, the computational effort is greatly reduced when the zones are subject to computationally expensive additional processes, such as Boltzmann radiation transport or a nuclear reaction network. We present accurate results in the standard tests for supernova simulations: Sedov's point-blast explosion, the nonrelativistic and relativistic shock tube, the Oppenheimer-Snyder dust collapse, and homologous collapse.

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