A plasma-vacuum interface tracking algorithm for magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coaxial plasma accelerators

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2018.03.041zbMath1406.76062OpenAlexW2795771826MaRDI QIDQ1721851

Laxminarayan L. Raja, Vivek Subramaniam

Publication date: 13 February 2019

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.03.041

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume methodsunstructured gridsinterface trackingmagnetohydrodynamicsimplicit schemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Uses Software

• PETSc
• HLLE
• HE-E1GODF
• MACH2

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