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Self-gravitational Magnetohydrodynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Protostellar Collapse

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v3

Abstract

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total variation diminishing (TVD) cell-centered scheme is adopted as the MHD solver, with hyperbolic cleaning of divergence error of the magnetic field also implemented. The self-gravity is solved by a multigrid method composed of (1) full multigrid (FMG)-cycle on the AMR hierarchical grids, (2) V-cycle on these grids, and (3) FMG-cycle on the base grid. The multigrid method exhibits spatial second-order accuracy, fast convergence, and scalability. The numerical fluxes are conserved by using a refluxing procedure in both the MHD solver and the multigrid method. The several tests are performed indicating that the solutions are consistent with previously published results.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609105,
  title  = {Self-gravitational Magnetohydrodynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Protostellar Collapse},
  author = {Tomoaki Matsumoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609105},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages, 15 figures. PASJ in press. Document with high resolution figures is available in http://redmagic.i.hosei.ac.jp/~matsu/AMR06/matsumotoAMR.pdf

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