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Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement Technique for Numerical Modeling of Relativistic Jets

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Relativistic jets are major sources of radio-frequency radiation in the Universe. Their study is complicated by the fact that the relativistic gas flows interact with interstellar space, with the formation of complex flows that are smaller than the jets but can affect the evolution of the entire jets. Adaptive grids have traditionally been used to simulate such multi-scale phenomena with high spatial resolution in the zone of complex jets and low resolution to reproduce the unperturbed gas flows. In this paper, a Patch-Block-Structured Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement technique is proposed for modeling multi-scale relativistic jets. To use this technique, mathematical tools for numerically solving the equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics are updated in a particular manner. The approach is applied to the evolution of a jet in interstellar space.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 23-11-00014). https://rscf.ru/project/23-11-00014/.

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Kulikov, I.M. Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement Technique for Numerical Modeling of Relativistic Jets. Lobachevskii J Math 45, 60–66 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995080224010293

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