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Foil 16 CPS713 Case Study II) Computational Features of Numerical Relativity (Contd) -- Black Hole Boundary Condition

From Overview of CFD and Numerical Relativity Case Study CPSP713 -- Autumn Semester 1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Boundary conditions at Black Holes involve physics and numerics
Certainly finite difference mesh needs some sort of special treatment
Physics says that any information inside black hole is irrelevant
  • It cannot get out and so cannot affect solution outside hole
However we don't know where Black Hole is until we get full solution!
This issue is "Show-Stopper". It may be that difficulties in this area will prevent reliable solutions without a major algorithmic breakthrough or new physics insight
  • Other NR issues are hard but no reason why we shouldn't solve reasonably well



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