Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, 4 figures, To appear in "Proceedings of First Stars III," Eds. Brian W. O'Shea, Alexander Heger & Tom Abel, AIP Confe
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2905583
Magnetic fields play an important role in almost all astrophysical phenomena including star formation. But due to the difficulty in analytic modeling and observation, magnetic fields are still poorly studied and numerical simulation has become a major tool. We have implemented a cosmological magnetohydrodynamics package for Enzo which is an AMR hydrodynamics code designed to simulate structure formation. We use the TVD solver developed by S. Li as the base solver. In addition, we employ the constrained transport(CT) algorithm as described by D. Balsara. For interpolation magnetic fields to fine grids we used a divergence free quadratic reconstruction, also described by Balsara. We present results from several test problems including MHD caustics, MHD pancake and galaxy cluster formation with magnetic fields. We also discuss possible applications of our AMR MHD code to first star research.
Collins David C.
Li Hui
Li Shengtai
Norman Michael L.
Xu Hao
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