Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:1040-1054,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10162.x
An approximate Riemann solver for the equations of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) is derived. The HLLC solver, originally developed by Toro, Spruce and Spears, generalizes the algorithm described in a previous paper (Mignone & Bodo 2004) to the case where magnetic fields are present. The solution to the Riemann problem is approximated by two constant states bounded by two fast shocks and separated by a tangential wave. The scheme is Jacobian-free, in the sense that it avoids the expensive characteristic decomposition of the RMHD equations and it improves over the HLL scheme by restoring the missing contact wave. Multidimensional integration proceeds via the single step, corner transport upwind (CTU) method of Colella, combined with the contrained tranport (CT) algorithm to preserve divergence-free magnetic fields. The resulting numerical scheme is simple to implement, efficient and suitable for a general equation of state. The robustness of the new algorithm is validated against one and two dimensional numerical test problems.
Bodo Gianluigi
Mignone Andrea
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