An unsplit staggered mesh scheme for multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 952-975

  Lee, Dongwook ^a   Deane, Anil E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained transport; Corner transport upwind; High order Godunov method; Magnetohydrodynamics; MHD; Staggered mesh; Unsplit scheme

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERFACE STATES; MESH GENERATION;

CONSTRAINED TRANSPORTS; CORNER TRANSPORT UPWIND; DATA RECONSTRUCTION; GODUNOV METHOD; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-ORDER GODUNOV METHOD; HIGHER-ORDER; STAGGERED MESH; STAGGERED MESH SCHEME; UNSPLIT SCHEME;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 58149156274     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.08.026     Document Type: Article

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