Changes (by Roland Haas):

milestone:

ET_2019_10 (was ET_2018_08)

We (the authors of GiRaFFE) hereby request that GiRaFFE be added to the Einstein Toolkit. In short, GiRaFFE is the first open source, dynamical-spacetime code for modeling plasma flows in general relativistic force-free electrodynamics (GRFFE). It will be the best code in the Toolkit for modeling black hole and neutron star magnetospheres, as these magnetically-dominated regions are best modeled numerically by a GRFFE code (GRMHD codes break down when modeling very highly magnetized plasmas).

Here is the commit ID for code reviewer comments: https://bitbucket.org/zach_etienne/wvuthorns/commits/ca2aab4ac66b404cddc6a3216e631ee916a5fe8d?at=master

Here is the original release announcement to the mailing list, including link to the code release paper:

We are pleased to announce the public release of GiRaFFE, an open-source General Relativistic Force-Free Electrodynamics (GRFFE) code for dynamical spacetimes.

-= Code Release Paper =-

Our code release paper--including a full description of the GiRaFFE code, a discussion of potential applications of GiRaFFE, and code validation test results--has been uploaded to the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00599 .

-= Executive Summary =-

GiRaFFE adopts the strategy pioneered by McKinney [1] and modified by Paschalidis and Shapiro [2] to convert a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code into a GRFFE code. In short, GiRaFFE exists as an extensive modification to IllinoisGRMHD [3]. Both GiRaFFE and IllinoisGRMHD leverage the Einstein Toolkit’s highly-scalable infrastructure [4,5] to make possible large-scale simulations of magnetized plasmas in strong, dynamical spacetimes on adaptive-mesh re

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2064/add-giraffe-to-the-einstein-toolkit