10 Easy? Steps to Model a Black Hole

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Table of Contents

10 Easy? Steps to Model a Black Hole

The 10 Steps

Step 0: Motivation

0: Background: Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge

0:astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves

0:Gravitational Wave Detectors

1: What Are Black Holes?

1:Event Horizons

1:Apparent Horizons

2:Einstein Field Equations

3: 3+1 Decomposition of Spacetime

3: ADM 3+1 Form

3:ADM 3+1 form (cont.)

3:Casual differencing

3:Description of causal differencing

3:Description of CD (continued)

4: Computational Solutions

4:Computational Solutions

4:Computational Solutions (cont.)

4:Computational Solutions (cont.)

5: Modeling Black Holes

5:Modeling Black Holes

5: Modeling black holes (picture)

5: Modeling black holes (picture)

6: The Inner Boundary

6: The Inner Boundary (cont.)

6: The inner boundary+causal differencing

6: Inner boundary + causal differencing

6: The Inner Boundary

7:Outer Boundary

7:Blended Dirchlet Outer boundary

8: Putting it together

8:Non-Moving Black Holes (Centered)

8:Non-Moving Black Holes (Centered)

8:Non-Moving Black Holes (Centered)

8:Non-Moving Black Holes (Centered)

8:Boosted Black Holes

8:Boosted Black Holes

9:Elliptic Problems

10:Computational Infrastructure

10: DAGH

10: Visualization Software (Ki, Klasky)

10: SV2 System Architecture

Major Obstacles

Author: Scott A. Klasky

Email: gcf@npac.syr.edu

Home Page: http://www.npac.syr.edu