A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper.The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves th...A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper.The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution on a single grid and avoids solving Riemann problems at the cell interfaces using ghost staggered cells.A subtraction technique is used on the conservative variables with the support of a known steady state in order to manifest the well-balanced property of the scheme.The divergence-free constraint of themagnetic field is satisfied after applying the constrained transport method(CTM)for unstaggered central schemes at the end of each time-step by correcting the components of the magnetic field.The robustness of the proposed scheme is verified on a list of numerical test cases from the literature.展开更多
基金the National Council for Scientific Research of Lebanon(CNRS-L)for granting a doctoral fellowship to Farah Kanbarfunding by theQualification Programof the Julius Maximilians University Wurzburg.
文摘A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper.The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution on a single grid and avoids solving Riemann problems at the cell interfaces using ghost staggered cells.A subtraction technique is used on the conservative variables with the support of a known steady state in order to manifest the well-balanced property of the scheme.The divergence-free constraint of themagnetic field is satisfied after applying the constrained transport method(CTM)for unstaggered central schemes at the end of each time-step by correcting the components of the magnetic field.The robustness of the proposed scheme is verified on a list of numerical test cases from the literature.
