An efficient shock-capturing central-type scheme for multidimensional relativistic flows. II. Magnetohydrodynamics

Details An efficient shock-capturing central-type scheme for multidimensional relativistic flows. II. Magnetohydrodynamics An efficient shock-capturing central-type scheme for multidimensional relativistic flows. II. Magnetohydrodynamics

2002-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210618v1

Astron.Astrophys. 400 (2003) 397-414

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, Latex, 8 Encapsulated PostScript figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021641

A third order shock-capturing numerical scheme for three-dimensional special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (3-D RMHD) is presented and validated against several numerical tests. The simple and efficient central scheme described in Paper I (Del Zanna and Bucciantini, Astron. Astrophys., 390, 1177--1186, 2002) for relativistic hydrodynamics is here extended to the magnetic case by following the strategies prescribed for classical MHD by Londrillo and Del Zanna (Astrophys. J., 530, 508--524, 2000). The scheme avoids completely spectral decomposition into characteristic waves, computationally expensive and subject to many degenerate cases in the magnetic case, while it makes use of a two-speed Riemann solver that just require the knowledge of the two local fast magnetosonic velocities. Moreover, the onset of spurious magnetic monopoles, which is a typical problem for multi-dimensional MHD upwind codes, is prevented by properly taking into account the solenoidal constraint and the specific antisymmetric nature of the induction equation. Finally, the extension to generalized orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems is included, thus the scheme is ready to incorporate general relativistic (GRMHD) effects.

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