Binary neutron star mergers: a review of Einstein's richest laboratory

L Baiotti, L Rezzolla - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

Neutron star merger remnants

S Bernuzzi - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2020 - Springer
Binary neutron star mergers observations are a unique way to constrain fundamental
physics and astrophysics at the extreme. The interpretation of gravitational-wave events and …

MPI-AMRVAC 3.0: Updates to an open-source simulation framework

R Keppens, BP Braileanu, Y Zhou, W Ruan… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Computational astrophysics nowadays routinely combines grid-adaptive
capabilities with modern shock-capturing, high resolution spatio-temporal integration …

Enzo: An adaptive mesh refinement code for astrophysics

GL Bryan, ML Norman, BW O'Shea… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the open-source code Enzo, which uses block-structured adaptive
mesh refinement to provide high spatial and temporal resolution for modeling astrophysical …

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 …

Hyperbolic divergence cleaning for the MHD equations

A Dedner, F Kemm, D Kröner, CD Munz… - Journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
In simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes the violation of the divergence
constraint causes severe stability problems. In this paper we develop and test a new …

The∇· B= 0 constraint in shock-capturing magnetohydrodynamics codes

G Tóth - Journal of Computational Physics, 2000 - Elsevier
Seven schemes to maintain the∇· B= 0 constraint numerically are compared. All these
algorithms can be combined with shock-capturing Godunov type base schemes. They fall …

Simulations of stellar convection with CO5BOLD

B Freytag, M Steffen, HG Ludwig… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
High-resolution images of the solar surface show a granulation pattern of hot rising and
cooler downward-sinking material–the top of the deep-reaching solar convection zone …

A unified framework for the construction of one-step finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin schemes on unstructured meshes

M Dumbser, DS Balsara, EF Toro, CD Munz - Journal of Computational …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this article, a conservative least-squares polynomial reconstruction operator is applied to
the discontinuous Galerkin method. In a first instance, piecewise polynomials of degree N …

Athena: a new code for astrophysical MHD

JM Stone, TA Gardiner, P Teuben… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has
been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It …