A Solution-Adaptive Upwind Scheme for Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 284-309

  Powell, Kenneth G ^a   Roe, Philip L ^a   Linde, Timur J ^a   Gombosi, Tamas I ^b   De Zeeuw, Darren L ^b  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; GAS DYNAMICS;

ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; APPROXIMATE RIEMANN SOLVER; COMPRESSIBLE GAS DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MULTI-STAGES; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES; UP-WIND SCHEME; UPWINDING;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0000550977     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6299     Document Type: Article

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