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Published on: December 4, 2017
Numerical Hydrodynamics in Special Relativity
José Maria Martí1, Ewald Müller2
1Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad de Valencia, E-46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain.
Abstract:
This review is concerned with a discussion of numerical methods for the solution of the equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD). Particular emphasis is put on a comprehensive review of the application of high-resolution shock-capturing methods in SRHD. Results of a set of demanding test bench simulations obtained with different numerical SRHD methods are compared. Three applications (astrophysical jets, gamma-ray bursts and heavy ion collisions) of relativistic flows are discussed. An evaluation of various SRHD methods is presented, and future developments in SRHD are analyzed involving extension to general relativistic hydrodynamics and relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics. The review further provides FORTRAN programs to compute the exact solution of a 1D relativistic Riemann problem with zero and nonzero tangential velocities, and to simulate 1D relativistic flows in Cartesian Eulerian coordinates using the exact SRHD Riemann solver and PPM reconstruction.
Electronic Supplementary Material:
Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.12942/lrr-2003-7 and is accessible for authorized users.
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