Spectral characteristic evolution: a new algorithm for gravitational wave propagation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/2/025008MaRDI QIDQ5178124zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Casey J. Handmer, Béla Szilágyi

Publication date 13 March 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7029, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/54458/

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmgeneral relativitygravitational radiationnumerical relativityspecial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We present a spectral algorithm for solving the full nonlinear vacuum Einstein field equations in the Bondi framework. Developed within the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC), we demonstrate spectral characteristic evolution as a technical precursor to Cauchy Characteristic Extraction (CCE), a rigorous method for obtaining gauge-invariant gravitational waveforms from existing and future astrophysical simulations. We demonstrate the new algorithm's stability, convergence, and agreement with existing evolution methods. We explain how an innovative spectral approach enables a two orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency.

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