This plot shows the radial component of the metric as a function of
r and t resulting from our numerical evolution code. Here the
coordinate r corresponds to an isotropic radial coordinate which is
locked to the Novikov radial coordinate for our case of geodesic
slicing. The coordinate t is simply the proper time. These values of
the radial component of the metric are reduced data computed from the
cartesian metric components which the code evolves directly. We chose
the diagonal of our 3D computational grid to provide us a radius along
which we could compute this representative plot. The region from r=0
to r~1.0 is the excised interior of the event horizon which can be seen
expanding in coordinate space as time advances.
Similarly, this is a plot of the exact solution of the radial
metric component in Novikov coordinates.
Finally, we show the error between the two solutions. Notice the
rapidly growing error at the inner horizon which is intermittently
truncated as grid points fall into the horizon. Also notice the
warping of the outer edge which propagates inward over time.