Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-02-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages with 21 GIF figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20010157
In this paper we describe a numerical method designed for modelling different kinds of astrophysical flows in three dimensions. Our method is a standard explicit finite difference method employing the local shearing-box technique. To model the features of astrophysical systems, which are usually compressible, magnetised and turbulent, it is desirable to have high spatial resolution and large domain size to model as many features as possible, on various scales, within a particular system. In addition, the time-scales involved are usually wide-ranging also requiring significant amounts of CPU time. These two limits (resolution and time-scales) enforce huge limits on computational capabilities. The model we have developed therefore uses parallel algorithms to increase the performance of standard serial methods. The aim of this paper is to report the numerical methods we use and the techniques invoked for parallelising the code. The justification of these methods is given by the extensive tests presented herein.
Caunt S. E.
Korpi Maarit Johanna
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