Numerical generation of vector potentials from specified magnetic fields

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2018.12.006OpenAlexW2794829641WikidataQ128745757 ScholiaQ128745757MaRDI QIDQ2169528

Zachary J. Silberman, Ian Ruchlin, Thomas Adams, Joshua A. Faber, Zachariah B. Etienne

Publication date: 2 September 2022

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10207

zbMATH Keywords

vector potentialmagnetohydrodynamicsnumerical relativityinverse curl

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx) Numerical linear algebra (65Fxx) General relativity (83Cxx)

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Uses Software

• MUMPS
• FFTW
• Eigen
• GRHydro
• Einstein Toolkit
• HARM
• IllinoisGRMHD

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• IllinoisGRMHD: an open-source, user-friendly GRMHD code for dynamical spacetimes
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• GRHydro: a new open-source general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for the Einstein toolkit