Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1086/381051
In recent years, several different strategies have emerged for evolving the magnetic field in numerical MHD. Some of these methods can be classified as divergence-cleaning schemes, where one evolves the magnetic field components just like any other variable in a higher order Godunov scheme. The fact that the magnetic field is divergence-free is imposed post-facto via a divergence-cleaning step. Other schemes for evolving the magnetic field rely on a staggered mesh formulation which is inherently divergence-free. The claim has been made that the two approaches are equivalent. In this paper we cross-compare three divergence-cleaning schemes based on scalar and vector divergence-cleaning and a popular divergence-free scheme. All schemes are applied to the same stringent test problem. Several deficiencies in all the divergence-cleaning schemes become clearly apparent with the scalar divergence-cleaning schemes performing worse than the vector divergence-cleaning scheme. The vector divergence-cleaning scheme also shows some deficiencies relative to the staggered mesh divergence-free scheme. The differences can be explained by realizing that all the divergence-cleaning schemes are based on a Poisson solver which introduces a non-locality into the scheme, though other subtler points of difference are also catalogued. By using several diagnostics that are routinely used in the study of turbulence, it is shown that the differences in the schemes produce measurable differences in physical quantities that are of interest in such studies.
Balsara Dinshaw
Kim Jongsoo
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