<p>If you can provide examples of numerical methods in GR you've seen/heard of that would help focus the question.</p>

<p>From the article you linked to: "The technique keeps track of a vast number of quarks and gluons by describing the space and time inside a proton with a set of points that make up a 4D lattice". This almost gets to the main issue with Numerical Relativity. There is no natural computational grid on which to simulate space-time. The whole game with GR is that gravity is space-time so first you have to simulate the space-time and then you have to simulate the objects (neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves) on top. </p>

<p>As the links below go into, its very difficult to create a consistent computational grid since the physical space-time your trying to simulate for a black hole has "funny" things in it like singularities, or an event horizon pas which we can't really know what's going on. </p>

<p>I think this article: <a href="http://astronomy.com/magazine/2016/02/putting-einstein-to-the-test?page=1" rel="nofollow">http://astronomy.com/magazine/2016/02/putting-einstein-to-the-test?page=1</a></p>

<p>does a good job of summing up the field, and its quite accessible.</p>

<p>For something more rigorous please see: <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.5260v2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.5260v2.pdf</a>
That paper gets into some of the math behind the article linked to above.</p>

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<p>As I know, for example the modelling of the collapse of a neutron star (to a black hole) wasn't done correctly until now.</p>

<p>Why? Yes, I know, the Einstein Field Equations aren't really easy to solve. But, for example, the situation is very similar in the case of the QCD, but there are already fruitful results existing ( <a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/nov/21/proton-and-neutron-masses-calculated-from-first-principles">http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/nov/21/proton-and-neutron-masses-calculated-from-first-principles</a> ).</p>

<p>Is there any theoretical obstacle in the way? Or we simply didn't have enough fast computers/physicist/programmer manyear until now?</p>

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Can you give more details about the model you have found?
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Perhaps, this sort of calculation is not so interesting (compared to QCD). What has been done is the merging of two BHs (including the gravitational radiation and the resulting anisotropic effects)
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What are the biggest problems about the numerical, finite-element GR models?
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# What are the biggest problems about the numerical, finite-element GR models?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-09-16)

As I know, for example the modelling of the collapse of a neutron star (to a black hole) wasn't done correctly until now.

Why? Yes, I know, the Einstein Field Equations aren't really easy to solve. But, for example, the situation is very similar in the case of the QCD, but there are already fruitful results existing ( <http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/nov/21/proton-and-neutron-masses-calculated-from-first-principles> ).

Is there any theoretical obstacle in the way? Or we simply didn't have enough fast computers/physicist/programmer manyear until now?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Can you give more details about the model you have found?  
> **username_2**: Perhaps, this sort of calculation is not so interesting (compared to QCD). What has been done is the merging of two BHs (including the gravitational radiation and the resulting anisotropic effects)  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2016-04-28. Score: 1

If you can provide examples of numerical methods in GR you've seen/heard of that would help focus the question.

From the article you linked to: "The technique keeps track of a vast number of quarks and gluons by describing the space and time inside a proton with a set of points that make up a 4D lattice". This almost gets to the main issue with Numerical Relativity. There is no natural computational grid on which to simulate space-time. The whole game with GR is that gravity is space-time so first you have to simulate the space-time and then you have to simulate the objects (neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves) on top.

As the links below go into, its very difficult to create a consistent computational grid since the physical space-time your trying to simulate for a black hole has "funny" things in it like singularities, or an event horizon pas which we can't really know what's going on.

I think this article: <http://astronomy.com/magazine/2016/02/putting-einstein-to-the-test?page=1>

does a good job of summing up the field, and its quite accessible.

For something more rigorous please see: <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.5260v2.pdf>
That paper gets into some of the math behind the article linked to above.


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