The eth formalism in numerical relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/4/013zbMATH Open0872.53054arXivgr-qc/9702002OpenAlexW3105747650MaRDI QIDQ4340978FDOQ4340978

Authors: Luis Lehner, Philippos Papadopoulos, Jeffrey Winicour, Roberto Gomez 

Publication date: 16 June 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a finite difference version of the eth formalism, which allows use of tensor fields in spherical coordinates in a manner which avoids polar singularities. The method employs two overlapping stereographic coordinate patches, with interpolations between the patches in the regions of overlap. It provides a new and effective computational tool for dealing with a wide variety of systems in which spherical coordinates are natural, such as the generation of radiation from an isolated source. We test the formalism with the evolution of waves in three spatial dimensions and the calculation of the curvature scalar of arbitrarily curved geometries on topologically spherical manifolds. The formalism is applied to the solution of the Robinson-Trautman equation and reveals some new features of gravitational waveforms in the nonlinear regime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9702002

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesnumerical relativityRobinson-Trautman equationspherical coordinatescurvature scalareth formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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