Elastic Body Motion in General Relativity

We numerically model an isotropic elastic body with free surface boundary conditions and negligible self-force moving in a background Schwarzschild space time. The elastic body is deformed as it falls into the black hole. We add spin to the elastic body to observe the deviation of its motion from a geodesic path and compare to the predictions of the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations.