High order strong stability preserving time discretizations

S Gottlieb, DI Ketcheson, CW Shu - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2009 - Springer
Strong stability preserving (SSP) high order time discretizations were developed to ensure
nonlinear stability properties necessary in the numerical solution of hyperbolic partial …

Numerical hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics in general relativity

JA Font - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2008 - Springer
This article presents a comprehensive overview of numerical hydrodynamics and magneto-
hydrodynamics (MHD) in general relativity. Some significant additions have been …

PLUTO: a numerical code for computational astrophysics

A Mignone, G Bodo, S Massaglia… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2, and 3
spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multiphysics …

HARM: a numerical scheme for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

CF Gammie, JC McKinney, G Tóth - The Astrophysical Journal, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a conservative, shock-capturing scheme for evolving the equations of general
relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, & van …

A measurement of the electromagnetic luminosity of a Kerr black hole

JC McKinney, CF Gammie - The astrophysical journal, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Some active galactic nuclei, microquasars, and gamma-ray bursts may be powered by the
electromagnetic braking of a rapidly rotating black hole. We investigate this possibility via …

Constraint violation in free evolution schemes: Comparing the BSSNOK formulation with a conformal decomposition of the Z4 formulation

S Bernuzzi, D Hilditch - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2010 - APS
We compare numerical evolutions performed with the BSSNOK formulation and a conformal
decomposition of a Z4-like formulation of general relativity. The important difference …

Parallel, grid-adaptive approaches for relativistic hydro and magnetohydrodynamics

R Keppens, Z Meliani, AJ van Marle, P Delmont… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Relativistic hydro and magnetohydrodynamics provide continuum fluid descriptions for gas
and plasma dynamics throughout the visible universe. We present an overview of state-of …

Numerical hydrodynamics in special relativity

JM Martí, E Müller - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2003 - Springer
This review is concerned with a discussion of numerical methods for the solution of the
equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD). Particular emphasis is put on a …

Beyond second-order convergence in simulations of magnetized binary neutron stars with realistic microphysics

ER Most, LJ Papenfort, L Rezzolla - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the impact of using high-order numerical methods to study the merger of
magnetized neutron stars with finite-temperature microphysics and neutrino cooling in full …

ECHO: a Eulerian conservative high-order scheme for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and magnetodynamics

L Del Zanna, O Zanotti, N Bucciantini… - Astronomy & …, 2007 - aanda.org
Aims. We present a new numerical code, ECHO, based on a Eulerian conservative high-
order scheme for time dependent three-dimensional general relativistic …