Curvilinear Grids for WENO Methods in Astrophysical Simulations
Abstract
We investigate the applicability of curvilinear grids in the context of astrophysical simulations and WENO schemes. With the non-smooth mapping functions from Calhoun et al. (2008), we can tackle many astrophysical problems which were out of scope with the standard grids in numerical astrophysics. We describe the difficulties occurring when implementing curvilinear coordinates into our WENO code, and how we overcome them. We illustrate the theoretical results with numerical data. The WENO finite difference scheme works only for high Mach number flows and smooth mapping functions whereas the finite volume scheme gives accurate results even for low Mach number flows and on non-smooth grids.
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@article{arxiv.1308.3066,
title = {Curvilinear Grids for WENO Methods in Astrophysical Simulations},
author = {Hannes Grimm-Strele and Friedrich Kupka and Herbert J. Muthsam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3066},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
27 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in CPC