Primitive Variable Solvers for Conservative General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
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Conservative numerical schemes for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) require a method for transforming between “conserved” variables such as momentum and energy density and “primitive” variables such as restmass density, internal energy, and components of the four-velocity. The forward transformation (primitive to conserved) has a closed-form solution, but the inverse transformation (conserved to primitive) requires the solution of a set of five nonlinear equations. Here we discuss the mathematical properties of the inverse
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