Magnetohydrodynamics of Solar Coronal Plasmas in Cylindrical Geometry

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 172-201

  Lionello, Roberto ^a,b   Mikić, Zoran ^a   Schnack, Dalton D ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy and astrophysics; Fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems; Initial value and time dependent initial boundary value problems; Iterative methods for linear systems; Numerical linear algebra; Partial differential equations

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSIC; CORONAL PLASMAS; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMIC AND HYDROMAGNETIC PROBLEM; INITIAL VALUE AND TIME-DEPENDENT INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM; INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS FOR LINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA; SEMI-IMPLICIT; TIME DEPENDENT;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0038905811     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.5841     Document Type: Article

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