A New Godunov Scheme for MHD, with Application to the MRI in disks

Details A New Godunov Scheme for MHD, with Application to the MRI in disks A New Godunov Scheme for MHD, with Application to the MRI in disks

2005-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501547v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, style files included, Conference Proceedings: "Magnetic Fields in the Universe: from Laboratory and Stars to Primord

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2077168

We describe a new numerical scheme for MHD which combines a higher order Godunov method (PPM) with Constrained Transport. The results from a selection of multidimensional test problems are presented. The complete test suite used to validate the method, as well as implementations of the algorithm in both F90 and C, are available from the web. A fully three-dimensional version of the algorithm has been developed, and is being applied to a variety of astrophysical problems including the decay of supersonic MHD turbulence, the nonlinear evolution of the MHD Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and the saturation of the magnetorotational instability in the shearing box. Our new simulations of the MRI represent the first time that a higher-order Godunov scheme has been applied to this problem, providing a quantitative check on the accuracy of previous results computed with ZEUS; the latter are found to be reliable.

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