Adaptive mesh refinement for singular current sheets in incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 190-198

  Friedel, Holger ^a   Grauer, Rainer ^a   Marliani, Christiane ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; CURRENT SHEETS; INCOMPRESSIBLE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS FLOWS; SCALINGS; SIMPLE++; SINGULAR STRUCTURE; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 0031161659     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1997.5683     Document Type: Article

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