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Ultrarelativistic fluid dynamics

David W. Neilsen, Matthew W. Choptuik

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9904052

Abstract

This is the first of two papers examining the critical collapse of spherically symmetric perfect fluids with the equation of state P = (Gamma -1)rho. Here we present the equations of motion and describe a computer code capable of simulating the extremely relativistic flows encountered in critical solutions for Gamma <= 2. The fluid equations are solved using a high-resolution shock-capturing scheme based on a linearized Riemann solver.

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