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Pick Your Problem
- NS-NS
- NS-BH
- BH-BH
- WD-anything
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Pick Your Dynamics and Treatment of Gravity
- Newtonian
- Post Newtonian
- General relativistic
- Hybrid
- fudge factors
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Pick Your Simulation Tool
- Grid-based Finite-Difference
- Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
- Spectral
- Spatial Resolution
- Variable and/or Adaptive "Mesh"
- Explicit or Implicit Time-integration
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Pick your initial [reproducible] conditions
- Total mass
- Separation
- Mass ratio
- Structural P(r)
(e.g., polytropic index)
- Roche-lobe filling factor
(e.g., specific entropy or
rmax)
- Spinning?
- Orbital eccentricity
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How much "microphysics" is included?
- Equation of state
- Radiative/particle transport
- Nuclear physics
- Magnetic fields
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