CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ›› 2009, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (1): 78-86.

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Spurious Magnetic Field Divergence Cleaning in Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation

TIAN Zhengyu, ZHANG Kangping, DING Guohao, LI Hua   

  1. College of Aerospace and Materials Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Received:2007-08-09 Revised:2007-11-15 Online:2009-01-25 Published:2009-01-25

Abstract: Numerical technique is developed to clean spurious magnetic field divergence ▽·B in full MHD (Magnetohydrodynamics) simulation.Eight-wave equations are solved in basic scheme combined with additional source term ▽·B to keep conservation.A projection scheme is used to clean spurious magnetic field divergence.3D Poisson equation is solved with a finite volume method.For smooth analytical field,▽·B is cleaned efficiently.While for hypersonic MHD blunt flows with shock wave,▽·B error increases sharply in free stream region.A local projection scheme is proposed to clean ▽·B in relatively high divergence region. Flow field converges well and magnetic field divergence in low divergence region is not influenced.

Key words: magnetohydrodynamics, spurious magnetic field divergence cleaning, hypersonic, numerical simulation, projection scheme

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