Department Publications

2020s

2025

40. Problem-Solving Frameworks for Tutorials in Upper-Division Electricity and Magnetism

    James Hecht^‡, Andrew J. Mason, Matthew Rundquist^‡, Seth Read^‡, David Neilsen, and John S. Colton

    Physics Education Research Conference 2025, (Washington, DC, August 2025).
    
41. Nyquist-resolving gravitational waves via orbital frequency-based refinement

    William K. Black, David Neilsen, Eric W. Hirschmann, David F. Van Komen^†, and Milinda Fernando

    Phys. Rev. D 111 (12), 124001 (2025).
    

2023

38. Massively parallel simulations of binary black holes with adaptive wavelet multiresolution

    Milinda Fernando, David Neilsen, Yosef Zlochower, Eric W. Hirschmann, and Hari Sundar

    Phys. Rev. D 107 (6), 064035 (2023).
    

2022

37. A GPU-Accelerated AMR Solver for Gravitational Wave Propagation

    Milinda Fernando, David Neilsen, Eric Hirschmann, Yosef Zlochower, Hari Sundar, Omar Ghattas, and George Biros

    2022 SC22: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), (Dallas, TX, November 2022).
    

2010s

2019

36. A scalable framework for adaptive computational general relativity on heterogeneous clusters

    Milinda Fernando, David Neilsen, Eric W. Hirschmann, and Hari Sundar

    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, (Phoenix, AZ — June 2019). Pages 1-12
    
37. Massively Parallel Simulations of Binary Black Hole Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

    Milinda Fernando, David Neilsen, Hyun Lim^†, Eric Hirschmann, and Hari Sundar

    SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 41 (2), C97-C138 (2019).
    

2018

34. Relativistic Hydrodynamics with Wavelets

    Jackson DeBuhr, Bo Zhang, Matthew Anderson, David Neilsen, Eric W. Hirschmann, Temistocle Grenga, and Samuel Paolucci

    Astrophys. J. 867 (2), 112 (2018).
    
35. Neutron star mergers as a probe of modifications of general relativity with finite-range scalar forces

    Laura Sagunski, Jun Zhang, Matthew C. Johnson, Luis Lehner, Mairi Sakellariadou, Steven L. Liebling, Carlos Palenzuela, and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. D 97 (6), 064016 (2018).
    

2016

32. Unequal mass binary neutron star mergers and multimessenger signals

    Luis Lehner, Steven L Liebling, Carlos Palenzuela, O L Caballero, Evan O'Connor, Matthew Anderson, and David Neilsen

    Class. Quantum Gravity 33 (18), 184002 (2016).
    

2015

31. Scalable Relativistic High-Resolution Shock-Capturing for Heterogeneous Computing

    Forrest Wolfgang Glines^‡, Matthew Anderson, and David Neilsen

    IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Chicago, IL, September 2015), pp. 611-618.
    
32. Effects of the microphysical equation of state in the mergers of magnetized neutron stars with neutrino cooling

    Carlos Palenzuela, Steven L. Liebling, David Neilsen, Luis Lehner, O. L. Caballero, Evan O’Connor, and Matthew Anderson

    Phys. Rev. D 92, 044045 (2015).
    

2014

29. Magnetized neutron stars with realistic equations of state and neutrino cooling

    David Neilsen, Steven L. Liebling, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Evan O'Connor, and Carlos Palenzuela

    Phys. Rev. D 89 (10), 104029 (2014).
    

2013

28. The transient gravitational-wave sky

    Nils Andersson, John Baker, Krzystof Belczynski, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Emanuele Berti, Laura Cadonati, … David Neilsen, … (39 other authors)

    Class. Quantum Gravity 30 (19), 193002 (2013).
    
29. Linking electromagnetic and gravitational radiation in coalescing binary neutron stars

    Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Marcelo Ponce, Matthew Anderson, David Neilsen, and Patrick Motl

    Phys. Rev. D 88 (4), 043011 (2013).
    
30. Electromagnetic and Gravitational Outputs from Binary-Neutron-Star Coalescence

    Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner, Marcelo Ponce, Steven L. Liebling, Matthew Anderson, David Neilsen, and Patrick Motl

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (6), 061105 (2013).
    

2012

25. Neutron star evolutions using nuclear equations of state with a new execution model

    David Neilsen, Matthew Anderson, Thomas Sterling, and Hartmut Kaiser

    The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Stockholm, Sweden, July 2012), pp. 995-997.
    

2011

24. Boosting jet power in black hole spacetimes

    David Neilsen, Luis Lehner, Carlos Palenzuela, Eric W. Hirschmann, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, and Travis Garrett

    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 108 (31), 12641-12646 (2011).
    

2010

23. Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion, and Fallback

    Sarvnipun Chawla, Matthew Anderson, Michael Besselman, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (11), 111101 (2010).
    
24. Evolutions of magnetized and rotating neutron stars

    Steven L. Liebling, Luis Lehner, David Neilsen, and Carlos Palenzuela

    Phys. Rev. D 81 (12), 124023 (2010).
    
25. Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes

    Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Miguel Megevand, and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. D 81 (4), 044004 (2010).
    

2000s

2009

20. Binary Black Holes' Effects on Electromagnetic Fields

    Carlos Palenzuela, Matthew Anderson^‡, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (8), 081101 (2009).
    
21. Perturbed disks get shocked: Binary black hole merger effects on accretion disks

    Miguel Megevand, Matthew Anderson, Juhan Frank, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. D 80 (2), 024012 (2009).
    

2008

18. Magnetized neutron-star mergers and gravitational-wave signals

    Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, and Joel E. Tohline

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (19), 191101 (2008).
    
19. Simulating binary neutron stars: Dynamics and gravitational waves

    Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela, and Joel E. Tohline

    Phys. Rev. D 77 (2), 024006 (2008).
    

2006

16. Relativistic MHD with adaptive mesh refinement

    Matthew Anderson, Eric W. Hirschmann, Steven L. Liebling, and David Neilsen

    Class. Quantum Gravity 23 (22), 6503-6524 (2006).
    
17. Relativistic MHD and excision: formulation and initial tests

    David Neilsen, Eric W. Hirschmann, and R. Steven Millward^†

    Class. Quantum Gravity 23 (16), S505-S527 (2006).
    
18. Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Relativistic MHD

    David Neilsen, Eric W. Hirschmann, Matthew Anderson, and Steven L. Liebling

    Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Berlin, Germany, July 2006) pp. 1579-1581.
    
19. Recent Analytical and Numerical Techniques Applied to the Einstein Equations

    Dave Neilsen, Luis Lehner, Olivier Sarbach, and Manuel Tiglio

    Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity. Lecture Notes in Phys. 692, 223-249 (2006).
    

2005

12. Excising a boosted rotating black hole with overlapping grids

    G. Calabrese and D. Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. D 71 (12), 124027 (2005).
    

2004

11. The discrete energy method in numerical relativity: towards long-term stability

    Luis Lehner, David Neilsen, Oscar Reula, and Manuel Tiglio

    Class. Quantum Gravity 21 (24), 5819-5848 (2004).
    
12. 3D simulations of Einstein's equations: Symmetric hyperbolicity, live gauges, and dynamic control of the constraints

    Manuel Tiglio, Luis Lehner, and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. D 70 (10), 104018 (2004).
    
13. Spherical excision for moving black holes and summation by parts for axisymmetric systems

    Gioel Calabrese and David Neilsen

    Phys. Rev. D 69, 044020 (2004).
    

2003

8. Novel finite-differencing techniques for numerical relativity: application to black-hole excision

   Gioel Calabrese, Luis Lehner, David Neilsen, Jorge Pullin, Oscar Reula, Olivier Sarbach, and Manuel Tiglio

   Class. Quantum Gravity 20 (20), L245-L251 (2003).
   
9. Physics and initial data for multiple black hole spacetimes

   Erin Bonning, Pedro Marronetti, David Neilsen, and Richard Matzner

   Phys. Rev. D 68, 044019 (2003).
   

2002

6. Black-hole threshold solutions in stiff fluid collapse

   Patrick R Brady, Matthew W Choptuik, Carsten Gundlach, and David W Neilsen

   Class. Quantum Gravity 19 (24), 6359-6375 (2002).
   

2000

5. Grazing Collisions of Black Holes via the Excision of Singularities

   Steve Brandt, Randall Correll, Roberto Gómez, Mijan Huq, Pablo Laguna, Luis Lehner, … David Neilsen, … (6 other authors)

   Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (26), 5496-5499 (2000).
   
6. Critical phenomena in perfect fluids

   David W Neilsen and Matthew W Choptuik

   Class. Quantum Gravity 17 (4), 761 (2000).
   
7. Ultrarelativistic fluid dynamics

   David W. Neilsen and Matthew W. Choptuik

   Class. Quantum Gravity 17 (4), 733-759 (2000).
   

1990s

1997

2. Analysis of ‘gauge modes’ in linearized relativity

   Richard A Matzner, Mijan Huq, Alonso Botero, Dae Il Choi, Ullar Kask, Juan Lara, … David Neilsen, … (3 other authors)

   Class. Quantum Gravity 14 (1), L21-L27 (1997).
   

1992

1. A Comparison of Fossilized Dinosaur Bone and the Surrounding Rock Using PIXE Analysis

   D. W. Neilsen^†, L. B. Rees, N. F. Mangelson, and M. W. Hill

   Int. J. PIXE 2 (3), 413-416 (1992).
   

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^†Graduate Student Author