The ▽ · B = 0 Constraint in Shock-Capturing Magnetohydrodynamics Codes

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 605-652

  Tóth, Gábor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Magnetohydrodynamics; Numerical approximation; Stability and convergence of difference methods

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

BASE SCHEME; CENTRAL DIFFERENCE; CONSTRAINED TRANSPORTS; DIFFERENCE METHOD; DISCRETIZATIONS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PROJECTION SCHEMES; SHOCK-CAPTURING; STABILITY AND CONVERGENCE; STABILITY AND CONVERGENCE OF DIFFERENCE METHOD;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0346046827     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6519     Document Type: Article

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