Kiriaki Dionisopoulou
Albert-Einstein-Institute, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam
14:00 Observatory Lab A.U.Th.
Abstract:
A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena around compact objects, such
as neutron stars, black holes, etc, involve dynamical and strong
electromagnetic fields. In regions where the electromagnetic fields
dominate and/or the magnetic field lines reconnect the ideal-MHD
approximation breaks down and it is not suitable to describe the
physical properties of the system under consideration. Under these
conditions, to properly describe the system we need a more general
approach which allows for resistive effects to be taken into account.
Therefore, we have developed a generalized code, based on the "Whisky"
code, to solve the resistive magnetohydrodynamics equations in
GR numerically. Our methods exploit the properties of Implicit/Explicit
Runge-Kutta schemes and allows for a special treatment of the stiff
terms that appear in the equations. The numerical results we obtain for a
number of numerical tests in both dynamical and non-dynamical
spacetimes, prove the accuracy of our code and that it can be employed
in order to study more realistic and complicated phenomena near compact
objects, such as jets, magnetosphere instabilities, etc.