Three-dimensional Adaptive Evolution of Gravitational Waves in Numerical Relativity
Dale Choi

Lab. for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, 20771

Propagation of Gravitational Waves with AMR

Linear Gravitational Wave with Amp= 10^(-6)

• gzz-1 in the equatorial plane (z=0) mpeg movie
  Level 1 grid 28x28x28
  Number of Grid functions ~ 200
  
  
  
  
  
• gyy-1 in the equatorial plane (z=0) mpeg movie
  
  
  
  
• Kzz in the equatorial plane (z=0) mpeg movie
  
  
  
  
• Kyy in the equatorial plane (z=0) mpeg movie
  
  

AMR tests with 1-dimensional wave equation Parwave1d Zoom-in

Research supported by NSF grant PHY-9722109 (J. M. Centrella, PI)
Animations by Dale Choi
Computations run on the T3E at PSC & Animations recorded at Drexel University

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