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Temporal Substepping Scheme for Magnetohydrodynamics with Cell-based Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Staggered Grid

Space Physics 2025-12-15 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Computational Physics Plasma Physics

Abstract

We present a new algorithm for numerical magnetohydrodynamics on staggered meshes preserving B=0\nabla \cdot B = 0. Our algorithm is based on the constrained transport method and supports both cell-based adaptive mesh refinement and temporal substepping. We handle resolution changes directly on the logically Cartesian grid without needing interpolation or projection between nested or neighboring grids, nor coupling the solution between refinement levels.

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@article{arxiv.2512.11365,
  title  = {Temporal Substepping Scheme for Magnetohydrodynamics with Cell-based Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Staggered Grid},
  author = {Ilja Honkonen and Riku Jarvinen and David Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.11365},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

21 pages, 13 figures

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