Minimizing dispersive errors in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics for strongly magnetized medium

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.09.022MaRDI QIDQ2374839zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kazunari Iwasaki

Publication date 5 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04369

zbMATH Keywords

astrophysicslinear analysismagnetohydrodynamicsparticle methodssmoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPM)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M75) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: In this study, we investigate the dispersive properties of smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPM) in a strongly magnetized medium by using linear analysis. In modern SPM, a correction term proportional to the divergence of the magnetic fields is subtracted from the equation of motion to avoid a numerical instability arising in a strongly magnetized medium. From the linear analysis, it is found that SPM with the correction term suffer from significant dispersive errors, especially for slow waves propagating along magnetic fields. The phase velocity for all wave numbers is significantly larger than the exact solution and has a peak at a finite wavenumber. These excessively large dispersive errors occur because magnetic fields contribute an unphysical repulsive force along magnetic fields. The dispersive errors cannot be reduced, even with a larger smoothing length and smoother kernel functions such as the Gaussian or quintic spline kernels. We perform the linear analysis for this problem and find that the dispersive errors can be removed completely while keeping SPM stable if the correction term is reduced by half. These findings are confirmed by several simple numerical experiments.

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• ZEUS
• NDSPMHD

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