Block structured adaptive mesh and time refinement for hybrid, hyperbolic + N-body systems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 400-430

  Miniati, Francesco ^a,b   Colella, Phillip ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Elliptic methods; Higher order Godunov methods; Particle in cell methods

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHES; BLOCK STRUCTURED; COLLISIONLESS; ELLIPTIC METHODS; GODUNOV METHOD; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-ORDER GODUNOV METHOD; HIGHER-ORDER; PARTICLE IN CELL METHOD;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 35348840289     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.07.035     Document Type: Article

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