Application of local discontinuous Galerkin method to Einstein equations

doi:10.1142/S0218271819500147

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	Application of local discontinuous Galerkin method to Einstein equations
	Cao, Zhoujian1,2 ; Fu, Pei 3; Ji, Li-Wei 4,5; Xia, Yinhua 3
	2019
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
ISSN	0218-2718
卷号	28 期号:1 页码:26
摘要	Finite difference and pseudo-spectral methods have been widely used in the numerical relativity to solve the Einstein equations. As the third major category method to solve partial differential equations, finite element method is less frequently used in numerical relativity. In this paper, we design a finite element algorithm to solve the evolution part of the Einstein equations. This paper is the second one of a systematic investigation of applying adaptive finite element method to the Einstein equations, especially aiming for binary compact objects simulations. The first paper of this series has been contributed to the constrained part of the Einstein equations for initial data. Since applying finite element method to the Einstein equations is a big project, we mainly propose the theoretical framework of a finite element algorithm together with local discontinuous Galerkin method for the Einstein equations in the current work. In addition, we have tested our algorithm based on the spherical symmetric spacetime evolution. In order to simplify our numerical tests, we have reduced the problem to a one-dimensional space problem by taking the advantage of the spherical symmetry. Our reduced equation system is a new formalism for spherical symmetric spacetime simulation. Based on our test results, we find that our finite element method can capture the shock formation which is introduced by numerical error. In contrast, such shock is smoothed out by numerical dissipation within the finite difference method. We suspect this is partly the reason that the accuracy of finite element method is higher than the finite difference method. At the same time, different kinds of formulation parameters setting are also discussed.
关键词	Numerical relativity Einstein equation gravitational wave
DOI	10.1142/S0218271819500147
语种	英语
资助项目	NSFC[11690023] ; NSFC[11622546]
WOS研究方向	Astronomy & Astrophysics
WOS类目	Astronomy & Astrophysics
WOS记录号	WOS:000456013000004
出版者	WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/32144
专题	应用数学研究所
通讯作者	Cao, Zhoujian
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Inst Appl Math, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, LSEC, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Math Sci, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 5.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Phys Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cao, Zhoujian,Fu, Pei,Ji, Li-Wei,et al. Application of local discontinuous Galerkin method to Einstein equations[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D,2019,28(1):26.
APA	Cao, Zhoujian,Fu, Pei,Ji, Li-Wei,&Xia, Yinhua.(2019).Application of local discontinuous Galerkin method to Einstein equations.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D,28(1),26.
MLA	Cao, Zhoujian,et al."Application of local discontinuous Galerkin method to Einstein equations".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D 28.1(2019):26.