PANGU I: A Parthenon-Based Framework for Fixed-Spacetime GRMHD
Abstract
Existing general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) codes offer complementary capabilities, but these capabilities remain distributed across different frameworks. To unify them, we introduce PANGU--Parthenon-Based Astrophysics for Numerical Relativity and GRMHD in a Unified Framework--a modular computational framework that integrates a shared solver across physical regimes, flexible spacetime geometry, and extensible computational infrastructure within a single architecture. In the first paper of this series, we present and validate the fixed-spacetime GRMHD component of PANGU. The shared solver combines finite-volume Godunov methods with constrained transport on uniform and block-structured, statically refined meshes, and covers hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics in Newtonian, special-relativistic, and general-relativistic regimes. PANGU provides a flexible geometry interface supporting coordinate selection and either on-the-fly or precomputed evaluation of prescribed stationary spacetimes, demonstrated here in Kerr spacetime with Cartesian Kerr-Schild and modified Kerr-Schild coordinates; additional components can be incorporated without restructuring the core solver. Verification covers all three regimes on uniform and statically refined meshes: smooth Newtonian and special-relativistic problems approach second order against their analytic solutions, with deliberately matched double-precision trajectories agreeing with AthenaK to roundoff; in fixed-spacetime GRMHD, the stationary analytic solutions are preserved to second order, and the turbulent accretion reproduces the same flow and flux scales as BHAC. Together, these results establish the fixed-spacetime matter-sector foundation for the broader PANGU framework. Numerical-relativity and coupled dynamical-spacetime GRMHD capabilities will be presented in subsequent work.
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BibTeX
@misc{li2026pangu,
title = {{PANGU I: A Parthenon-Based Framework for Fixed-Spacetime GRMHD}},
author = {Yuehang Li and Fan Zhou and Mingyang Luan and Minyong Guo and Bin Chen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.27515},
eprint = {2609.27515},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27515},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - PANGU I: A Parthenon-Based Framework for Fixed-Spacetime GRMHD
AU - Yuehang Li
AU - Fan Zhou
AU - Mingyang Luan
AU - Minyong Guo
AU - Bin Chen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.27515
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27515
AB - Existing general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) codes offer complementary capabilities, but these capabilities remain distributed across different frameworks. To unify them, we introduce PANGU--Parthenon-Based Astrophysics for Numerical Relativity and GRMHD in a Unified Framework--a modular computational framework that integrates a shared solver across physical regimes, flexible spacetime geometry, and extensible computational infrastructure within a single architecture. In the first paper of this series, we present and validate the fixed-spacetime GRMHD component of PANGU. The shared solver combines finite-volume Godunov methods with constrained transport on uniform and block-structured, statically refined meshes, and covers hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics in Newtonian, special-relativistic, and general-relativistic regimes. PANGU provides a flexible geometry interface supporting coordinate selection and either on-the-fly or precomputed evaluation of prescribed stationary spacetimes, demonstrated here in Kerr spacetime with Cartesian Kerr-Schild and modified Kerr-Schild coordinates; additional components can be incorporated without restructuring the core solver. Verification covers all three regimes on uniform and statically refined meshes: smooth Newtonian and special-relativistic problems approach second order against their analytic solutions, with deliberately matched double-precision trajectories agreeing with AthenaK to roundoff; in fixed-spacetime GRMHD, the stationary analytic solutions are preserved to second order, and the turbulent accretion reproduces the same flow and flux scales as BHAC. Together, these results establish the fixed-spacetime matter-sector foundation for the broader PANGU framework. Numerical-relativity and coupled dynamical-spacetime GRMHD capabilities will be presented in subsequent work.
ER -