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CoCoNut Meeting 2016

  • December 13rd, 2016
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The meeting will be held from December 14 to 16 in the recently inaugurated Salón de Grados Lise Meitner of the Faculty of Physics.

The CoCoNuT code is a general relativistic hydrodynamics code with dynamical spacetime evolution. The aim of this numerical code is the study of several astrophysical scenarios in which general relativity can play an important role, namely the collapse of rapidly rotating stellar cores and the evolution of isolated neutron stars. The emphasis of the meeting shall be put on Relativistic Astrophysics. Recent progress and future developments of this field and of the CoCoNuT code shall be discussed, as well as advances in relativistic hydrodynamics, sources of gravitational waves, physics of compact stars and hydrodynamical treatment of phase transitions. The purpose of the CoCoNuT meeting is twofold: on the one hand it is intended as a regular (yearly so far) meeting of the CoCoNuT users, but it also serves as an opportunity to interchange ideas with users of similar numerical codes.

This meeting is organized by members of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Physics Faculty and the Department of Mathematics of the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Valencia.