Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-10-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
37 pages, 14 figures, submitted to ApJ. Animations can be viewed at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~jd5v/grmhd/grmhd.html
Scientific paper
10.1086/373949
This paper describes the development and testing of a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code to study ideal MHD in the fixed background of a Kerr black hole. The code is a direct extension of the hydrodynamic code of Hawley, Smarr, and Wilson, and uses Evans and Hawley constrained transport (CT) to evolve the magnetic fields. Two categories of test cases were undertaken. A one dimensional version of the code (Minkowski metric) was used to verify code performance in the special relativistic limit. The tests include Alfv\'en wave propagation, fast and slow magnetosonic shocks, rarefaction waves, and both relativistic and non-relativistic shock tubes. A series of one- and two-dimensional tests were also carried out in the Kerr metric: magnetized Bondi inflow, a magnetized inflow test due to Gammie, and two-dimensional magnetized constant-$l$ tori that are subject to the magnetorotational instability.
de Villiers Jean-Pierre
Hawley John F.
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