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), id.4, 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), id.22, 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), id.7, 22 pages
  5. An Extension of the Athena++ Framework for General Equations of State, Coleman, M.S.B. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 248(1), id.7, 24 pages
  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), id.30, 19 pages
  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, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 268(2), id.42, 12 pages
  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, The Astrophysical Journal, 949(2), id.103, 20 pages
  9. Multigroup Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics Based on Discrete Ordinates including Compton Scattering, Jiang, Y.F. 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 263(1), id.4, 19 pages
  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), id.49, 19 pages
  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), id.7, 15 pages
  12. A New Numerical Scheme for Cosmic-Ray Transport, Jiang, Y.F. and Oh, S.P. 2018, The Astrophysical Journal, 854(1), id.5, 23 pages
  13. Formation and Early Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks under Nonuniform Cosmic-Ray Ionization (Implementation of the Multigrid CR diffusion solver, see Appendix), Nishio, E., Tomida, K., Kudoh, Y., Kimura, S. S., 2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 988(1), id.56, 19 pages

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, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(3), 3328-3347
  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), id.11, 25 pages
  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), id.25, 26 pages
  4. A Coscaling Grid for Athena++, Habegger, R. and Heitsch, F. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 256(2), id.42, 8 pages
  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), id.24, 20 pages
  6. 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.
  7. Parthenon-- a performance portable block-structured adaptive mesh refinement framework , Grete, P. et al 2022, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2022, 37(5), 465-486