An Efficient Implementation of the Divergence Free Constraint in a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructured Meshes

An Efficient Implementation of the Divergence Free Constraint in a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Magnetohydrodynamics on Unstructured Meshes

Year:    2017

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 21 (2017), Iss. 2 : pp. 423–442

Abstract

In this paper we consider a discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on unstructured meshes, and the divergence free constraint (∇·B = 0) of its magnetic field B. We first present two approaches for maintaining the divergence free constraint, namely the approach of a locally divergence free projection inspired by locally divergence free elements [19], and another approach of the divergence cleaning technique given by Dedner et al. [15]. By combining these two approaches we obtain an efficient method at the almost same numerical cost. Finally, numerical experiments are performed to show the capacity and efficiency of the scheme.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.180515.230616a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 21 (2017), Iss. 2 : pp. 423–442

Published online:    2017-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    20

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