Coordinate conditions in three-dimensional numerical relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/12/001zbMATH Open0875.83013arXivgr-qc/9601027OpenAlexW1981773284MaRDI QIDQ5284331FDOQ5284331

Edward Seidel, Malcolm Tobias, W. M. Suen, Jayashree Balakrishna, Gregory Daues, Edward T. H. Wang

Publication date: 14 May 1997

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

Abstract: We put forth a few ideas on coordinate conditions and their implementation in numerical relativity. Coordinate conditions are important for the long time scale simulations of relativistic systems, e.g., for the determination of gravitational waveforms from astrophysical events to be measured by LIGO/VIRGO. We demonstrate the importance of, and propose methods for, the {it active enforcement} of coordinate properties. In particular, the constancy of the determinant of the spatial 3-metric is investigated as such a property. We propose an exceedingly simple but powerful idea for implementing elliptic coordinate conditions that not only makes possible the use of complicated elliptic conditions, but is also {it orders of magnitude} more efficient than existing methods for large scale 3D simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9601027

zbMATH Keywords

numerical relativitycoordinate propertieselliptic coordinate conditionslarge-scale three-dimensional simulationsscale simulations of relativistic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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