An unstaggered constrained transport method for the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3803-3829

  Helzel, Christiane ^a   Rossmanith, James A ^b   Taetz, Bertram ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained transport; Hyperbolic conservation laws; Magnetohydrodynamics; Plasma physics; Wave propagation algorithms

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOPLASMA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONSTRAINED TRANSPORTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYPERBOLIC CONSERVATION LAWS; IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC VECTOR POTENTIALS; MAGNETIC-FIELD; PLASMA PHYSICS; TRANSPORT METHOD; WAVE PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; WAVE PROPAGATION SCHEME;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 79952901638     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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