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 …

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 …

The PLUTO code for adaptive mesh computations in astrophysical fluid dynamics

A Mignone, C Zanni, P Tzeferacos… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the
PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic …

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 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 …

A new efficient formulation of the HLLEM Riemann solver for general conservative and non-conservative hyperbolic systems

M Dumbser, DS Balsara - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper a new, simple and universal formulation of the HLLEM Riemann solver (RS) is
proposed that works for general conservative and non-conservative systems of hyperbolic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Second-order-accurate schemes for magnetohydrodynamics with divergence-free reconstruction

DS Balsara - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
While working on an adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) scheme for divergence-free
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Balsara discovered a unique strategy for the reconstruction …