Athena++

Assorted Athena++ Publications

Code and method papers

  1. The Athena++ adaptive mesh refinement framework: design and magnetohydrodynamic solvers, Stone, J. M., Tomida, K., White, C. J., & Felker, K. G. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 249(1), 40 pages
  2. A fourth-order accurate finite volume method for ideal MHD via upwind constrained transport, Felker, K. G., & Stone, J. M. 2018, Journal of Computational Physics, 375, 1365-1400
  3. An Extension of the Athena++ Code Framework for GRMHD Based on Advanced Riemann Solvers and Staggered-mesh Constrained Transport, White, C. J., Stone, J. M., & Gammie, C. F. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 225(2), 22 pages
  4. The Athena++ Adaptive Mesh Refinement Framework: Multigrid Solvers for Self-gravity, Tomida, K. and Stone, J.M. 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 266(1), p.7.
  5. An Extension of the Athena++ Framework for General Equations of State, Coleman, M.S. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 248(1), p.7.
  6. An Extension of the Athena++ Framework for Fully Conservative Self-gravitating Hydrodynamics, Mullen, P.D., Hanawa, T. and Gammie, C.F. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 252(2), p.30.
  7. Implementation of chemistry in the Athena++ code, Gong, M., Ho, K.W., Stone, J.M., Ostriker, E.C., Caselli, P., Grassi, T., Kim, C.G., Kim, J.G. and Halevi, G. 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.04965.
  8. An Extension of the Athena++ Code Framework for Radiation-Magnetohydrodynamics in General Relativity Using a Finite-Solid-Angle Discretization , White, C.J., Mullen, P.D., Jiang, Y.F., Davis, S.W., Stone, J.M., Morozova, V. and Zhang, L. 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.04283.
  9. Multigroup Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics Based on Discrete Ordinates including Compton Scattering, Jiang, Y.F. 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 263(1), p.4.
  10. An Implicit Finite Volume Scheme to Solve the Time-dependent Radiation Transport Equation Based on Discrete Ordinates, Jiang, Y.F. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 253(2), p.49.
  11. An Algorithm for Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics Based on Solving the Time-dependent Transfer Equation, Jiang, Y.F., Stone, J.M. and Davis, S.W. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 213(1), p.7.

Unmerged features, forked codes, etc.

  1. The Magnetohydrodynamic-Particle-In-Cell Module in Athena++: Implementation and Code Tests, Sun, X. and Bai, X.N. 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.10568.
  2. A Multifluid Dust Module in Athena++: Algorithms and Numerical Tests, Huang, P. and Bai, X.N. 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 262(1), p.11.
  3. GR-Athena++: Puncture Evolutions on Vertex-centered Oct-tree Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Daszuta, B., Zappa, F., Cook, W., Radice, D., Bernuzzi, S. and Morozova, V. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 257(2), p.25.
  4. A Coscaling Grid for Athena++, Habegger, R. and Heitsch, F. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 256(2), p.42.
  5. A Fast Poisson Solver of Second-order Accuracy for Isolated Systems in Three-dimensional Cartesian and Cylindrical Coordinates , Moon, S., Kim, W.T., Ostriker, E. 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 241(2), p.24.
  6. A New Numerical Scheme for Cosmic-Ray Transport, Jiang, Y.F. and Oh, S.P. 2018, The Astrophysical Journal, 854(1), p.5.
  7. K-Athena: a performance portable structured grid finite volume magnetohydrodynamics code, Grete, P. and Glines, F. W. and O'Shea, B. W. 2021, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 32(1), pp.85-907.
  8. Parthenon-- a performance portable block-structured adaptive mesh refinement framework , Grete, P. et al 2022, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 0(0), p.22.