COSMOLOGICAL ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS WITH ENZO

Divergence-Free Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Magnetohydrodynamics

Self-gravitational Magnetohydrodynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Protostellar Collapse

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total variation diminishing (TVD) cell-centered scheme is adopted as the MHD solver, with hyperbolic cleaning of divergence error of the magnetic field also implemented...

Implicit adaptive mesh refinement for 2D reduced resistive magnetohydrodynamics

An implicit structured-adaptive-mesh-refinement (SAMR) solver for 2D reduced magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The time-implicit discretization is able to step over fast normal modes, while the spatial adaptivity resolves thin, dynamically evolving features. A Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov method is used for the nonlinear solver engine. For preconditioning, we have extended the optimal “ph...

Solution of Reduced Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics using Implicit Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Computational study of the macroscopic stability of plasmas is a challenging multi-scale problem. Implicit time integration can be used to relieve stability constraints due to fast Alfvén waves, and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) can be used to resolve highly localized solution features. The strong nonlinearities and numerical stiffness of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) models present further chall...

Cosmological Radiation Hydrodynamics with Enzo

We describe an extension of the cosmological hydrodynamics code Enzo to include the self-consistent transport of ionizing radiation modeled in the flux-limited diffusion approximation. A novel feature of our algorithm is a coupled implicit solution of radiation transport, ionization kinetics, and gas photoheating, making the timestepping for this portion of the calculation resolution independen...