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Computational relativistic astrophysics with adaptive mesh refinement: Testbeds

Edwin Evans1, Sai Iyer1, Erik Schnetter2, Wai-Mo Suen1,3, Jian Tao1, Randy Wolfmeyer1, and Hui-Min Zhang1

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

Phys. Rev. D 71, 081301(R) – Published 14 April, 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.081301

Abstract

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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