Wednesday, June 27, 2012

1206.5972 (José María Ibáñez et al.)

On numerical relativistic hydrodynamics and barotropic equations of state    [PDF]

José María Ibáñez, Isabel Cordero-Carrión, Juan Antornio Miralles
The characteristic formulation of the relativistic hydrodynamic equations (Donat et al 1998 J. Comput. Phys. 146 58), which has been implemented in many relativistic hydro-codes that make use of Godunov-type methods, has to be slightly modified in the case of evolving barotropic flows. For a barotropic equation of state, a removable singularity appears in one of the eigenvectors. The singularity can be avoided by means of a simple renormalization which makes the system of eigenvectors well defined and complete. An alternative strategy for the particular case of barotropic flows is discussed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5972

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