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HARM: A Numerical Scheme for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

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Gammie, Charles F., McKinney, Jonathan C., Toth, Gabor·2003·The Astrophysical Journal

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We describe a conservative, shock-capturing scheme for evolving the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, & van Leer scheme. A variant of constrained transport, proposed earlier by Tóth, is used to maintain a divergence-free magnetic field. Only the covariant form of the metric in a coordinate basis is required to specify the geometry. We describe code performance on a full suite of test problems in both special and general relativity. On smooth flows we show that it converges at second order. We conclude by showing some results from the evolution of a magnetized torus near a rotating black hole.

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Authors
Gammie, C. F., McKinney, J. C., & Toth, G.
Venue
The Astrophysical Journal
Published
2003-05-20
Volume
589
Issue
1
Pages
444-457
ISSN
  • 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-4357
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W2078887476
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798
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23.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
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