Published April 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Computational relativistic astrophysics with adaptive mesh refinement: Testbeds

  • 1. McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)
  • 2. Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Muehlenberg 1, D-14467, Potsdam (Germany)
  • 3. Physics Department, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)

Description

We have carried out numerical simulations of strongly gravitating systems based on the Einstein equations coupled to the relativistic hydrodynamic equations using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) techniques. We show AMR simulations of NS binary inspiral and coalescence carried out on a workstation having an accuracy equivalent to that of a 10253 regular unigrid simulation, which is, to the best of our knowledge, larger than all previous simulations of similar NS systems on supercomputers. We believe the capability opens new possibilities in general relativistic simulations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 081301-081301.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37023375
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; ASTROPHYSICS; COALESCENCE; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COSMOLOGY; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; PHYSICS; SIMULATION

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