A current density conservative scheme for incompressible MHD flows at a low magnetic Reynolds number. Part I: On a rectangular collocated grid system

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 174-204

  Ni, Ming Jiu ^a,c   Munipalli, Ramakanth ^b   Morley, Neil B ^a   Huang, Peter ^b   Abdou, Mohamed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HYPERCOMP INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Consistent and conservative scheme; MHD; Projection method

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CURRENT DENSITY; CYTOLOGY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CELL FACES; COLLOCATED GRIDS; CONSERVATIVE SCHEMES; CONSISTENT AND CONSERVATIVE SCHEME; CURRENT-FLUX; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; HARTMANN NUMBERS; MAGNETIC REYNOLDS NUMBER; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS FLOWS; PROJECTION METHOD;

LORENTZ FORCE;

EID: 35348819989     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.025     Document Type: Article

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