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A Numerical Study of Relativistic Jets

José-maría MartíJosé A. FontEwald MüllerJ. M. Ibanez

subject

PhysicsCode (set theory)symbols.namesakeAstrophysical jetAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenasymbolsSupersonic speedRiemann solverComputational physics

description

Numerical simulations of supersonic jets are able to explain the structures observed in many VLA images of radio sources. The improvements achieved in classical simulations (see Hardee, these proceedings) are in contrast with the almost complete lack of relativistic simulations the reason being that numerical difficulties arise from the highly relativistic flows typical of extragalactic jets. For our study, we have developed a two-dimensional code which is based on (i) an explicit conservative differencing of the special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRH) equations and (ii) the use of an approximate Riemann solver (see Marti et al. 1995a,b and references therein).

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1996-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0295-4_153