Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1997-08-19
Class.Quant.Grav. 15 (1998) 2427-2449
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
18 pages, plain TeX, 5 epsf figues, gzipped ps file also available at http://newton.maths.monash.edu.au:8000/preprints/3+1-slg
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/020
A new hybrid scheme for numerical relativity will be presented. The scheme will employ a 3-dimensional spacelike lattice to record the 3-metric while using the standard 3+1 ADM equations to evolve the lattice. Each time step will involve three basic steps. First, the coordinate quantities such as the Riemann and extrinsic curvatures are extracted from the lattice. Second, the 3+1 ADM equations are used to evolve the coordinate data, and finally, the coordinate data is used to update the scalar data on the lattice (such as the leg lengths). The scheme will be presented only for the case of vacuum spacetime though there is no reason why it could not be extended to non-vacuum spacetimes. The scheme allows any choice for the lapse function and shift vectors. An example for the Kasner $T^3$ cosmology will be presented and it will be shown that the method has, for this simple example, zero discretisation error.
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