Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 367 (2006) 1797-1807
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Main Journal
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10087.x
The force-free limit of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is often a reasonable approximation to model black hole and neutron star magnetospheres. We describe a general relativistic force-free (GRFFE) formulation that allows general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) codes to directly evolve the GRFFE equations of motion. Established, accurate, and well-tested conservative GRMHD codes can simply add a new inversion piece of code to their existing code, while continuing to use all the already-developed facilities present in their GRMHD code. We show how to enforce the $\mathbf{E}\cdot\mathbf{B}=0$ constraint and energy conservation, and we introduce a simplified general model of the dissipation of the electric field to enforce the $B^2-E^2>0$ constraint. We also introduce a simplified yet general method to resolve current sheets, without much reconnection, over many dynamical times. This formulation is incorporated into an existing GRMHD code (HARM), which is demonstrated to give accurate and robust GRFFE results for Minkowski and black hole space-times.
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