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

DOI10.1080/03091929.2019.1653460MaRDI QIDQ5065699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

Publication date 22 March 2022

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

turbulenceearly universegravitational wavesaeroacoustics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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