Comparison of shock capturing schemes for the discontinuous Galerkin method in GRMHD

ORAL

Abstract

Using our open-source code SpECTRE, we present a detailed comparison of various limiting and shock capturing strategies for the discontinuous Galerkin methods proposed in the literature applied to a set of test problems in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). We compare the standard minmod/ΛΠN limiter, the hierarchical limiter of Krivodonova, the simple WENO limiter, the HWENO limiter, and a discontinuous Galerkin-finite difference hybrid method. The goal is to evaluate the robustness and accuracy of the different strategies in order to understand which are most likely able to simulate neutron stars.

*This work was supported in part by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and by NSF Grants No. PHY-2011961, No. PHY-2011968, and No. OAC- 1931266 at Caltech, and NSF Grants No. PHY- 1912081 and No. OAC-1931280 at Cornell.

Publication: Simulating magnetized neutron stars with discontinuous Galerkin methods (arXiv:2109.12033)

Presenters

  • Yoonsoo Kim

    • California Institute of Technology

Authors

  • Yoonsoo Kim

    • California Institute of Technology
  • Nils Deppe

    • Caltech
  • Francois Hebert

    • Caltech
  • William T Throwe

    • Cornell University
  • Lawrence E Kidder

    • Cornell University
  • Mark A Scheel

    • Caltech
  • Saul Teukolsky

    • Cornell University