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We present the implementation of a three-dimensional, second order accurate Godunov-type algorithm for magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD), in the adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) cosmological code {\tt CHARM}. The algorithm is based on the full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Miniati , Daniel F. Martin

We present a new algorithm for numerical magnetohydrodynamics on staggered meshes preserving $\nabla \cdot B = 0$. Our algorithm is based on the constrained transport method and supports both cell-based adaptive mesh refinement and temporal…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Ilja Honkonen , Riku Jarvinen , David Phillips

In this paper, we present a new method to perform numerical simulations of astrophysical MHD flows using the Adaptive Mesh Refinement framework and Constrained Transport. The algorithm is based on a previous work in which the MUSCL--Hancock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Fromang , P. Hennebelle , R. Teyssier

GAMER, a parallel Graphic-processing-unit-accelerated Adaptive-MEsh-Refinement hydrodynamic code, has been extended to support magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with both the corner-transport-upwind (CTU) and MUSCL-Hancock schemes and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Ui-Han Zhang , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh

Magnetic fields play an important role in many astrophysical systems and a detailed understanding of their impact on the gas dynamics requires robust numerical simulations. Here we present a new method to evolve the ideal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Numerical simulations including magnetic fields have become important in many fields of astrophysics. Evolution of magnetic fields by the constrained transport algorithm preserves magnetic divergence to machine precision, and thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jason Maron , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Jeffrey Oishi

A description is given for preserving ${\bmsy\nabla}\cdot{\vec B}=0$ in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that employs the upwind, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme and the Strang-type operator splitting for multi-dimensionality. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dongsu Ryu , Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

The formation of current sheets in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows in two dimensions is studied numerically using the technique of adaptive mesh refinement. The growth of current density is in agreement with simple scaling…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Holger Friedel , Rainer Grauer , Christiane Marliani

We describe a method for incorporating ambipolar diffusion in the strong coupling approximation into a multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics code based on the total variation diminishing scheme. Contributions from ambipolar diffusion terms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Jongsoo Kim , Paul J. Wiita

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

In this work, we present a positivity-preserving adaptive filtering approach for discontinuous spectral element approximations of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. This approach combines the entropy filtering method (Dzanic and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Tarik Dzanic , Freddie D. Witherden

Performing a stable, long duration simulation of driven MHD turbulence with a high thermal Mach number and a strong initial magnetic field is a challenge to high-order Godunov ideal MHD schemes because of the difficulty in guaranteeing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pak Shing Li , Daniel F. Martin , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

We present a constrained transport (CT) algorithm for solving the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on a moving mesh, which maintains the divergence-free condition on the magnetic field to machine-precision. Our CT scheme uses an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Lars Hernquist

Numerical methods for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in more than one space dimension must either confront the challenge of controlling errors in the discrete divergence of the magnetic field, or else be faced with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Christiane Helzel , James A. Rossmanith , Bertram Taetz

A new code, named MAP, is written in Fortran language for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) calculation with the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallelization. There are several optional numerical schemes for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-27 R. L. Jiang , C. Fang , P. F. Chen

Obtainable computational efficiency is evaluated when using an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy in time accurate simulations governed by sets of conservation laws. For a variety of 1D, 2D, and 3D hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Keppens , M. Nool , G. Toth , J. P. Goedbloed

We present a description of the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) implementation of the PLUTO code for solving the equations of classical and special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD and RMHD). The current release exploits, in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Mignone , C. Zanni , P. Tzeferacos , B. van Straalen , P. Colella , G. Bodo

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

We test a new "hybrid" scheme for simulating dynamical fluid flows in which cylindrical components of the momentum are advected across a rotating Cartesian coordinate mesh. This hybrid scheme allows us to conserve angular momentum to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zachary D. Byerly , Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach , Joel E. Tohline , Dominic C. Marcello
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