Multiscale Relativistic Simulations
- Started
- 3rd October 2016
- Research Team
- Alex Wright
- Investigators
- Ian Hawke
Two large objects form a binary inspiral, losing energy in the form of gravitational waves
There has been recent success in experiments, such as LIGO, in detecting the mergers of celestial objects via the gravitational waves they emit. By implementing numerical methods, we aim to speed up the numerical simulations of these events but up to two orders of magnitudes, and study binary inspirals in greater detail and over much larger timespans.
Categories
Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Astrophysics, Complex fluids, Fluid Dynamics, General Relativity
Algorithms and computational methods: Finite differences, Finite elements, Finite volume
Programming languages and libraries: C++, IPython/Jupyter Notebook, Python
Computational platforms: Linux, Mac OS X
Transdisciplinary tags: NGCM