2019

Moving Mesh Astrophysics

by Dr Paul Duffell (Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Pacific/Honolulu
112 (Watanabe)

112

Watanabe

2505 Correa Road, HNL
Description

Novel methods in recent years have been developed for numerically solving the hydrodynamical and MHD equations relevant to all kinds of astrophysical flows. I will first (briefly) present one such computational technique, where the numerical grid follows the MHD flow using a "moving mesh". I will then present two very distinct astrophysical scenarios to which I have applied this method, specifically gap opening in protoplanetary disks and electromagnetic counterparts to neutron star mergers