Self-consistent solution of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamics and chemical ionization

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.06.006zbMATH Open1173.76033arXiv0901.1110OpenAlexW2032006090MaRDI QIDQ843440FDOQ843440

Authors: Daniel R. Reynolds, John C. Hayes, Pascal Paschos, Michael L. Norman 

Publication date: 12 October 2009

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a PDE system comprising compressible hydrodynamics, flux-limited diffusion radiation transport and chemical ionization kinetics in a cosmologically-expanding universe. Under an operator-split framework, the cosmological hydrodynamics equations are solved through the Piecewise Parabolic Method, as implemented in the Enzo community hydrodynamics code. The remainder of the model, including radiation transport, chemical ionization kinetics, and gas energy feedback, form a stiff coupled PDE system, which we solve using a fully-implicit inexact Newton approach, and which forms the crux of this paper. The inner linear Newton systems are solved using a Schur complement formulation, and employ a multigrid-preconditioned conjugate gradient solver for the inner Schur systems. We describe this approach and provide results on a suite of test problems, demonstrating its accuracy, robustness, and scalability to very large problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1110

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zbMATH Keywords

Schur complementpiecewise parabolic methodfully-implicit inexact Newton approachmultigrid-preconditioned conjugate gradient solver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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• On the accuracy of common moment-based radiative transfer methods for simulating reionization
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Uses Software

• hypre
• KELLEY
• ENZO
• GADGET

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