A High-Order Gas-Kinetic Method for Multidimensional Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-88

  Tang, Hua Zhong ^a   Xu, Kun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Kinetic method; Magnetohydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

FLUX FUNCTION; FLUX SPLITTING METHODS; GAS KINETIC THEORY; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS EQUATIONS; KINETICS METHOD; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CASE; SPLITTINGS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0011982257     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6597     Document Type: Article

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