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Title: Ameliorating the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition in spherical coordinates: A double FFT filter method for general relativistic MHD in dynamical spacetimes

Abstract

Numerical simulations of merging compact objects and their remnants form the theoretical foundation for gravitational wave and multimessenger astronomy. While Cartesian-coordinate-based adaptive mesh refinement is commonly used for simulations, spherical-like coordinates are more suitable for nearly spherical remnants and azimuthal flows due to lower numerical dissipation in the evolution of fluid angular momentum, as well as requiring fewer numbers of computational cells. However, the use of spherical coordinates to numerically solve hyperbolic partial differential equations can result in severe Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability condition time step limitations, which can make simulations prohibitively expensive. This paper addresses this issue for the numerical solution of coupled spacetime and general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics evolutions by introducing a double fast Fourier transform (FFT) filter and implementing it within the fully message passing interface (mpi)-parallelized sphericalnr framework in the einstein toolkit. In conclusion, we demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the filtering algorithm by applying it to a number of challenging code tests, and show that it passes these tests effectively, demonstrating convergence while also increasing the time step significantly compared to unfiltered simulations.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5]
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology, NY (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)
  3. Rochester Institute of Technology, NY (United States); NPCx, Estero, FL (United States)
  4. Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) (Spain)
  5. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID (United States); West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
2205415
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; NASA NNH17ZDA001N-TCAN-17-TCAN17-0018 80NSSC18K1488; ISFM-80NSSC18K0538; PHY-2110338; OAC-2004044/1550436; AST-2009330; OAC-1811228; PHY-1912632; PHY-1806596; PHY-2110352; OAC-2004311; PHY-2018420; PHY-0722703; PHY-1229173; PHY-1726215; OIA-1458952
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D.
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 108; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Classical black holes; General relativity; Neutron stars & pulsars; Numerical relativity; Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

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Ji, Liwei, Mewes, Vassilios, Zlochower, Yosef, Ennoggi, Lorenzo, Armengol, Federico G. Lopez, Campanelli, Manuela, Cipolletta, Federico, and Etienne, Zachariah B. Ameliorating the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition in spherical coordinates: A double FFT filter method for general relativistic MHD in dynamical spacetimes. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.108.104005.
Ji, Liwei, Mewes, Vassilios, Zlochower, Yosef, Ennoggi, Lorenzo, Armengol, Federico G. Lopez, Campanelli, Manuela, Cipolletta, Federico, & Etienne, Zachariah B. Ameliorating the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition in spherical coordinates: A double FFT filter method for general relativistic MHD in dynamical spacetimes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.108.104005
Ji, Liwei, Mewes, Vassilios, Zlochower, Yosef, Ennoggi, Lorenzo, Armengol, Federico G. Lopez, Campanelli, Manuela, Cipolletta, Federico, and Etienne, Zachariah B. Fri . "Ameliorating the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition in spherical coordinates: A double FFT filter method for general relativistic MHD in dynamical spacetimes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.108.104005.
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title = {Ameliorating the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition in spherical coordinates: A double FFT filter method for general relativistic MHD in dynamical spacetimes},
author = {Ji, Liwei and Mewes, Vassilios and Zlochower, Yosef and Ennoggi, Lorenzo and Armengol, Federico G. Lopez and Campanelli, Manuela and Cipolletta, Federico and Etienne, Zachariah B.},
abstractNote = {Numerical simulations of merging compact objects and their remnants form the theoretical foundation for gravitational wave and multimessenger astronomy. While Cartesian-coordinate-based adaptive mesh refinement is commonly used for simulations, spherical-like coordinates are more suitable for nearly spherical remnants and azimuthal flows due to lower numerical dissipation in the evolution of fluid angular momentum, as well as requiring fewer numbers of computational cells. However, the use of spherical coordinates to numerically solve hyperbolic partial differential equations can result in severe Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) stability condition time step limitations, which can make simulations prohibitively expensive. This paper addresses this issue for the numerical solution of coupled spacetime and general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics evolutions by introducing a double fast Fourier transform (FFT) filter and implementing it within the fully message passing interface (mpi)-parallelized sphericalnr framework in the einstein toolkit. In conclusion, we demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the filtering algorithm by applying it to a number of challenging code tests, and show that it passes these tests effectively, demonstrating convergence while also increasing the time step significantly compared to unfiltered simulations.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.108.104005},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 10,
volume = 108,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 03 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Fri Nov 03 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
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