A vector potential implementation for smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.11.011MaRDI QIDQ728865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Federico A. Stasyszyn, Detlef Elstner

Publication date 20 December 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3290

zbMATH Keywords

magnetohydrodynamicsastrophysicssmooth particle hydrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: The development of smooth particle magnetohydrodynamic (SPMHD) has significantly improved the simulation of complex astrophysical processes. However, the preservation the solenoidality of the magnetic field is still a severe problem for the MHD. A formulation of the induction equation with a vector potential would solve the problem. Unfortunately all previous attempts suffered from instabilities. In the present work, we evolve the vector potential in the Coulomb gauge and smooth the derived magnetic field for usage in the momentum equation. With this implementation we could reproduce classical test cases in a stable way. A simple test case demonstrates the possible failure of widely used direct integration of the magnetic field, even with the usage of a divergence cleaning method.

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• VecDualSPHysics: a vectorized implementation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for simulating fluid flows on multi-core processors
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• Minimizing dispersive errors in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics for strongly magnetized medium
• Smoothed particle electromagnetics: a mesh-free solver for transients
• Slurm: fluid particle-in-cell code for plasma modeling
• A positioning algorithm for SPH ghost particles in smoothly curved geometries
• A conservative finite element solver for the induction equation of resistive MHD: vector potential method and constraint preconditioning
• Simulating electrohydrodynamics with smoothed particle hydrodynamics based on a charge-conservative approach
• Constrained hyperbolic divergence cleaning in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics with variable cleaning speeds
• Implementation of the CIP algorithm to magnetohydrodynamic simulations

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Uses Software

• Athena
• Splash
• NDSPMHD

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