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GAP room
Speaker
Miguel Zilhão (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Abstract: In this talk, we introduce the field of General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) and give an overview on recent effort toward simulating and visualizing astrophysically realistic gas dynamics around compact binaries. In particular we motivate our group's approach, where a post-Newtonian expansion is used to construct an analytic spacetime, and we show preliminary results of circumbinary disks surrounding an equal-mass non-spinning black hole binary.