8–11 Sept 2026
University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Black hole-neutron star mergers on GPU-accelerated codes

10 Sept 2026, 11:30
20m
Building 56 (University of Southampton)

Building 56

University of Southampton

Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
CoCoNuT meeting (9-11 Sept) Talks

Speaker

Oliver Steppohn (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

Description

We present among the first black hole-neutron star merger simulations with full and improved microphyiscal treatment on the GPU-accelerated code AthenaK. As a test suite we look at the standard diagnostics, such as gravitational waves, ejecta properties, the post-merger disk and nucleosynthesis yields. We find that our low-resolution results compare well against the literature results obtained with legacy codes. This small study demonstrates that we are able to push to even higher resolutions and larger batches of simulations, gaining results in much shorter time compared to traditional codes, in the exascale era.

Author

Oliver Steppohn (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)

Co-author

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