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Three Dimensional Codes for Numerical Relativity with New Formalisms of the Einstein Equation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16540237
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
Research InstitutionNiigata University

Principal Investigator

OOHARA Ken-ichi  Niigata University, Institute of Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 自然科学系, 助教授 (00183765)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Keywordsgeneral relativity / gravitational waves / 連星中性子星 / コンピュータシミュレーション
Research Abstract

Improvement of three dimensional code has been made to investigate coalescing binary neutron stars or black holes and gravitation radiation. Several codes with various formalism of the Einstein equation, which includes adjusted ADM formalism, has been compared. Some formalisms are proposed to reduce evolution equations of the metric into hyperbolic partial differential equations by means of constraints equations, but we found that the BSSN formalism or its modification is as a whole very good for numerical precision and stability. Even if some are efficient for spherically or axially symmetric cases, they are not true for three dimensional cases. In particular with a large grid size, more complicated formalism tends to leads numerical instability since it causes larger numerical errors. Indeed, a formalism using constraint equations may keep the constrain better in the course of time evolution, but it does not always lease numerical stability. In addition, elliptic partial differential equations should be solved as precisely as possible for numerical stability. Since it requires a lot of CPU hours to solve elliptic equations, we need an efficient algorism for them. Some coordinate conditions are reduced to Elliptic equations. However, some of them need not be solved precisely. Instead, they may be solved approximately.
In the second half of the research, we construct a simulation code for coalescing black holes. A stable code with a singularity excision was obtained. However, the grid size we used is too small to apply to more realistic binary block holes and further improvement is required to use parallel computers entirely.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2005 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2005 2004

All Journal Article (7 results)

  • [Journal Article] Upper limits from LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-Wave bursts2005

    • Author(s)
      S.Fairhurst, H.Takahashi, K.Oohara ほか
    • Journal Title

      Classical and Quantum Gravity 22・18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Upper limits from LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-Wave bursts2005

    • Author(s)
      S.Fairhurst, H.Takahashi, K.Oohara et al.
    • Journal Title

      Classical and Quantum Gravity Vol.22, No.18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Status of the joint LIGO-TAMA300 inspiral analysis2005

    • Author(s)
      S.Fairhurst, H.Takahashi, K.Oohara ほか
    • Journal Title

      Classical and Quantum Gravity 22・18

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Upper limits from LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-Wave bursts2005

    • Author(s)
      B.Abbott, A.Akutsu, K.Oohara ほか
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review D D72・123

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Gauge-Invariant Gravitational Wave Extraction from Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars2004

    • Author(s)
      M.Kawamura, K.Oohara
    • Journal Title

      Progress of Theoretical Physics 111・4

      Pages: 589-594

    • NAID

      110001196164

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Gauge-Invariant Gravitational Wave Extraction from Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars2004

    • Author(s)
      M.Kawamura, K.Oohara
    • Journal Title

      Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol.111 No.4

      Pages: 589-594

    • NAID

      110001196164

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Gauge-Invariant Gravitational Wave Extraction from Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars2004

    • Author(s)
      M.Kawamura, K.Oohara
    • Journal Title

      Progress of Theoretical Physics 111

      Pages: 589-594

    • NAID

      110001196164

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2004-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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