Improved Gauge Conditions for Binary Black Hole Simulations

Nicole Rosato, Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.

Usage Details

The research involves performing simulations of binary black hole mergers using the Blue Waters computational resources. The code used to do these simulations, the Einstein Toolkit, is an open-source, collaborative code. It handles all parallelization, grid discretization, and solving of the Einstein Field Equations. Different research groups modify their individual “thorns”, or branches of the code, to study binary compact object mergers. My institution, RIT, has its own set of thorns which I am modifying in an attempt to reduce error in extreme simulations.