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Magnetohydrodynamics of Solar Coronal Plasmas in Cylindrical Geometry

✍ Scribed by Roberto Lionello; Zoran Mikić; Dalton D. Schnack


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
484 KB
Volume
140
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9991

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✦ Synopsis


We describe a three-dimensional algorithm for the advancement of the resistive MHD equations in cylindrical geometry with line-tied boundary conditions. This code has been developed to simulate the behavior of solar coronal plasmas. A finitedifference discretization is used for the radial and axial coordinates; a pseudospectral method is used for the azimuthal coordinate. The dependent variables are defined on finite-difference meshes that are staggered with respect to each other to facilitate the application of boundary conditions. The time-advance algorithm features a semi-implicit leapfrog scheme for the wave terms, a predictor-corrector treatment of advection, and an implicit advance of the resistive and viscous diffusion terms. The semi-implicit and implicit operators are inverted using a preconditioned conjugate gradient method. Special care is taken in maintaining the self-adjointness of the discretized operators, so that a fast inversion algorithm applicable to symmetric matrices can be used. By way of illustration, we describe the application of the code to the linear and nonlinear evolution of a kink instability in a twisted flux tube.


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