Dynamic fisheye grids for binary black hole simulations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/6/065013zbMATH Open1292.83038arXiv1309.2960OpenAlexW3105638953MaRDI QIDQ5413623FDOQ5413623

Authors: Miguel Zilhão, Scott C. Noble 

Publication date: 30 April 2014

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

Abstract: We present a new warped gridding scheme adapted to simulating gas dynamics in binary black hole spacetimes. The grid concentrates grid points in the vicinity of each black hole to resolve the smaller scale structures there, and rarefies grid points away from each black hole to keep the overall problem size at a practical level. In this respect, our system can be thought of as a "double" version of the fisheye coordinate system, used before in numerical relativity codes for evolving binary black holes. The gridding scheme is constructed as a mapping between a uniform coordinate system--in which the equations of motion are solved--to the distorted system representing the spatial locations of our grid points. Since we are motivated to eventually use this system for circumbinary disc calculations, we demonstrate how the distorted system can be constructed to asymptote to the typical spherical polar coordinate system, amenable to efficiently simulating orbiting gas flows about central objects with little numerical diffusion. We discuss its implementation in the Harm3d code, tailored to evolve the magnetohydrodynamics equations in curved spacetimes. We evaluate the performance of the system's implementation in Harm3d with a series of tests, such as the advected magnetic field loop test, magnetized Bondi accretion, and evolutions of hydrodynamic discs about a single black hole and about a binary black hole. Like we have done with Harm3d, this gridding scheme can be implemented in other unigrid codes as a (possibly) simpler alternative to adaptive mesh refinement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2960

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesgeneral relativitymagnetohydrodynamicsfisheye coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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• Adaptive polygon rendering for interactive visualization in the Schwarzschild spacetime
• Black-hole excision with multiple grid patches

Uses Software

• Harm3d

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