Admissible Lax-Wendroff Flux Reconstruction Method with Automatic Differentiation on Adaptive Curved Meshes for Relativistic Hydrodynamics

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Main Authors: Basak, Sujoy, Babbar, Arpit, Kumar, Harish, Chandrashekar, Praveen
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Published: 2026
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author Basak, Sujoy
Babbar, Arpit
Kumar, Harish
Chandrashekar, Praveen
author_facet Basak, Sujoy
Babbar, Arpit
Kumar, Harish
Chandrashekar, Praveen
contents The relativistic hydrodynamics (RHD) equations can give rise to solutions which have shocks, contact discontinuities, and other sharp structures, which interact and evolve over time. Capturing these sharp waves effectively requires a mesh with high resolution, making the scheme computationally expensive. In this work, adaptive mesh refinement is used with the high-order Lax-Wendroff flux reconstruction (LWFR) method to solve the system of RHD equations, which is closed with general equations of state. To make the scheme Jacobian-free, the idea of automatic differentiation is incorporated for computing the temporal derivatives in the time average flux approximations. The high-order method is blended with an admissible low-order method at the subcell level to control the Gibbs oscillations and maintain the physical admissibility of the solution. Finally, several test cases involving high Lorentz factors, low densities, low pressures, strong shock waves, and other discontinuities are used to demonstrate the robustness, accuracy, and effectiveness of the proposed method. These simulations are performed with AMR using various linear and curved meshes to show the scheme's efficiency and ability to handle complex geometries.
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spellingShingle Admissible Lax-Wendroff Flux Reconstruction Method with Automatic Differentiation on Adaptive Curved Meshes for Relativistic Hydrodynamics
Basak, Sujoy
Babbar, Arpit
Kumar, Harish
Chandrashekar, Praveen
Numerical Analysis
65M22, 65M60, 65M70
G.1.8
The relativistic hydrodynamics (RHD) equations can give rise to solutions which have shocks, contact discontinuities, and other sharp structures, which interact and evolve over time. Capturing these sharp waves effectively requires a mesh with high resolution, making the scheme computationally expensive. In this work, adaptive mesh refinement is used with the high-order Lax-Wendroff flux reconstruction (LWFR) method to solve the system of RHD equations, which is closed with general equations of state. To make the scheme Jacobian-free, the idea of automatic differentiation is incorporated for computing the temporal derivatives in the time average flux approximations. The high-order method is blended with an admissible low-order method at the subcell level to control the Gibbs oscillations and maintain the physical admissibility of the solution. Finally, several test cases involving high Lorentz factors, low densities, low pressures, strong shock waves, and other discontinuities are used to demonstrate the robustness, accuracy, and effectiveness of the proposed method. These simulations are performed with AMR using various linear and curved meshes to show the scheme's efficiency and ability to handle complex geometries.
title Admissible Lax-Wendroff Flux Reconstruction Method with Automatic Differentiation on Adaptive Curved Meshes for Relativistic Hydrodynamics
topic Numerical Analysis
65M22, 65M60, 65M70
G.1.8
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20608