GiRaFFE: an open-source general relativistic force-free electrodynamics code

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/aa8ab3zbMath1380.83003arXiv1704.00599OpenAlexW2609941580WikidataQ110512336 ScholiaQ110512336MaRDI QIDQ4605307

Sean T. McWilliams, Zachariah B. Etienne, Ashok Choudhary, Maria C. Babiuc, Mew-Bing Wan

Publication date: 22 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00599

zbMATH Keywords

general relativitymagnetohydrodynamicGRMHDforce-free electrodynamicsFFEgeneral relativistic force-free electrodynamics codeGiRaFFEGRFFEillinoisgrmhd

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22)

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On a modification of the Rusanov solver for the equations of special relativistic magnetic hydrodynamics ⋮ A new code for the numerical simulation of relativistic flows on supercomputers by means of a low-dissipation scheme ⋮ GiRaFFE

Uses Software

• Kranc
• HLLE
• Einstein Toolkit
• IllinoisGRMHD
• PHAEDRA

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