Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Volume 218, Issue 1, Pages 44-67Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.042
Keywords
magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics; hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems; finite difference methods; induction equation; magnetohydrodynamics; Godunov scheme; adaptive mesh refinement; numerical schemes
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We propose to extend the well-known MUSCL-Hancock scheme for Euler equations to the induction equation modeling the magnetic field evolution in kinematic dynamo problems. The scheme is based on an integral form of the underlying conservation law which, in our formulation, results in a finite-surface scheme for the induction equation. This naturally leads to the well-known constrained transport method, with additional continuity requirement on the magnetic field representation. The second ingredient in the MUSCL scheme is the predictor step that ensures second order accuracy both in space and time. We explore specific constraints that the mathematical properties of the induction equations place on this predictor step, showing that three possible variants can be considered. We show that the most aggressive formulations (referred to as C-MUSCL and U-MUSCL) reach the same level of accuracy as the other one (referred to as Runge-Kutta), at a lower computational cost. More interestingly, these two schemes are compatible with the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework. It has been implemented in the AMR code RAMSES. It offers a novel and efficient implementation of a second order scheme for the induction equation. We have tested it by solving two kinematic dynamo problems in the low diffusion limit. The construction of this scheme for the induction equation constitutes a step towards solving the full MHD set of equations using an extension of our current methodology. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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