Simulation of Gravitational Collapse in General Relativity
Outline
Gravitational Waves and Black Holes
Black Holes
Gravitational Waves
Sources of Gravitational Waves
Binary Black Hole Merger Waveform Estimate
Head-on Black Hole Collision
“Waveform Extraction”
Critical Phenomena
Type II Critical Behavior — SU(2) Yang-Mills field
Type I Critical Behavior
Numerical Challenges in Simulating Spacetime
Black Hole Excision
Numerical Challenges
Our Axisymmetric gravitational collapse code
RNPL
RNPL example
PPT Slide
AMR
2D AMR “near” critical example
Parallel Execution
Sample Uni-Grid Parallelization
DAGH - key features
DAGH
Schematic DAGH example
Sample 16-node parallel run
Data collection, analysis and visualization
DV screenshot
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