Divergence-free reconstruction of magnetic fields and WENO schemes for magnetohydrodynamics

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.03.038zbMATH Open1280.76030arXiv0811.2192OpenAlexW1971908644MaRDI QIDQ834058FDOQ834058


Authors: Dinshaw S. Balsara Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 August 2009

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

Abstract: Balsara (2001, J. Comput. Phys., 174, 614) showed the importance of divergence-free reconstruction in adaptive mesh refinement problems for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and the importance of the same for designing robust second order schemes for MHD was shown in Balsara (2004, ApJS, 151, 149). Second order accurate divergence-free schemes for MHD have shown themselves to be very useful in several areas of science and engineering. However, certain computational MHD problems would be much benefited if the schemes had third and higher orders of accuracy. In this paper we show that the reconstruction of divergence-free vector fields can be carried out with better than second order accuracy. As a result, we design divergence-free weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes for MHD that have order of accuracy better than second. A multistage Runge-Kutta time integration is used to ensure that the temporal accuracy matches the spatial accuracy. Accuracy analysis is carried out and it is shown that the schemes meet their design accuracy for smooth problems. Stringent tests are also presented showing that the schemes perform well on those tests.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2192




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