Documentation and code repository for the PH 821 course project. The final submission can be viewed here. The results are presented in the form of a python notebook which has numpy, matplotlib and yaml as its only dependencies.
The code simulates gravitational waves produced during the inspiral phase of compact binaries in circular orbits under linearised gravity. Each of these components can be independently extended.
A static image of the result of a ring of test particles when a plus polarised gravitational wave passes perpendicular to the plane
An example of the dynamic spectrum that can be obtained using the code is shown below
Video animations of circularly polarised and linearly polarised waves in 3D can also be found in .mp4 format under the ./results directory
This work is distributed under the MIT License. For more information, read this