Hall magnetohydrodynamics on block-adaptive grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 6967-6984

  Tóth, Gábor ^a   Ma, Yingjuan ^a   Gombosi, Tamas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive grid; Block adaptive grid; Hall MHD; Magnetohydrodynamics; Numerical approximation; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

ADAPTIVE GRIDS; BLOCK-ADAPTIVE GRID; EXPLICIT TIME INTEGRATION; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATIONS; HALL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; HALL MHD; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 44649131248     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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