Time Dependent Radiation Hydrodynamics on a Moving Mesh

Abstract

We describe the structure and implementation of a radiation hydrodynamic solver for MANGA, the moving-mesh hydrodynamics module of the large-scale parallel code, Charm N-body GrAvity solver (ChaNGa). We solve the equations of time dependent radiative transfer using a reduced speed of light approximation following the algorithm of Jiang et al (2014). By writing the radiative transfer equations as a generalized conservation equation, we solve the transport part of these equations on an unstructured Voronoi mesh. We then solve the source part of the radiative transfer equations following Jiang et al (2014) using an implicit solver, and couple this to the hydrodynamic equations. The use of an implicit solver ensure reliable convergence and preserves the conservation properties of these equations even in situations where the source terms are stiff due to the small coupling timescales between radiation and matter. We present the results of a limited number of test cases (energy conservation, momentum conservation, dynamic diffusion, linear waves, crossing beams, and multiple shadows) to show convergence with analytic results and numerical stability. We also show that it produces qualitatively the correct results in the presence of multiple sources in the optically thin case.

13 pages, 8 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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