[75.02] Numerical Simulation of 2D Relativistic Hydrodynamics Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement Technique

AAS 207th Meeting, 8-12 January 2006
Session 75 Early Results from Swift: The Gamma Ray Burst Bonanza
Poster, Tuesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, January 10, 2006, Exhibit Hall

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[75.02] Numerical Simulation of 2D Relativistic Hydrodynamics Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement Technique

K. Kwak, F. D. Swesty (Stony Brook Univ.), IBEAM Team

We have developed a code to numerically solve two-dimensional special relativistic hydrodynamics equations based on the LCPFCT algorithm for one-dimensional Newtonian hydrodynamics. We implemented our code using the PARAMESH, Parallel AMR library. We present the details of our algorithm and exhibit its performance on a series of verification tests. Our code will be combined with two-dimensional transport code to build up a code for two-dimensional special relativistic radiation hydrodynamics. The prompt and/or afterglow emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRBs) will be investigated in detail with the numerical simulation of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics.

This work was supported by NASA Cooperative Agreement No. NCC 5-615.

The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: kkwak@grad.physics.sunysb.edu

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