The timestep constraint in solving the gravitational wave equations sourced by hydromagnetic turbulence

DOI10.1080/03091929.2019.1653460zbMATH Open1482.83034arXiv1807.05479OpenAlexW3099501834WikidataQ114640050 ScholiaQ114640050MaRDI QIDQ5065699FDOQ5065699

Sayan Mandal, Alberto Roper Pol, A. Brandenburg, Tina Kahniashvili, Arthur Kosowsky

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hydromagnetic turbulence produced during phase transitions in the early universe can be a powerful source of stochastic gravitational waves (GWs). GWs can be modelled by the linearised spatial part of the Einstein equations sourced by the Reynolds and Maxwell stresses. We have implemented two different GW solvers into the {sc Pencil Code} -- a code which uses a third order timestep and sixth order finite differences. Using direct numerical integration of the GW equations, we study the appearance of a numerical degradation of the GW amplitude at the highest wavenumbers, which depends on the length of the timestep -- even when the Courant--Friedrichs--Lewy condition is ten times below the stability limit. This degradation leads to a numerical error, which is found to scale with the third power of the timestep. A similar degradation is not seen in the magnetic and velocity fields. To mitigate numerical degradation effects, we alternatively use the exact solution of the GW equations under the assumption that the source is constant between subsequent timesteps. This allows us to use a much longer timestep, which cuts the computational cost by a factor of about ten.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05479

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulenceearly universegravitational wavesaeroacoustics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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