The two-dimensional adiabatic relaxation method for MHD modelling

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(87)90111-2MaRDI QIDQ1095759zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James W. Eastwood

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(87)90111-2

zbMATH Keywords

adiabatic relaxation methodconjugate gradient accelerated SSORequilibriaFinite element discretisationHamilton's principleMHD equationsmoving finite element modelnonlinear minimisation problemvariational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Review text

The adiabatic relaxation method is extended to two dimensions using a moving finite element model. The MHD equations are split into ideal and diffusion parts by employing a fractional timestep. The ideal equations are expressed in variational form using Hamilton's principle. Finite element discretisation of the variational principle leads to equations for studying equilibria, time dependent MHD and stability. It is shown that conjugate gradient accelerated SSOR is effective in solving the nonlinear minimisation problem arising in finding equilibria. Aligning the finite elements with flux surfaces causes surface averaged transport to emerge naturally from the diffusion part of the timestep.

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