A simulation of driven reconnection by a high precision MHD code
Abstract
A high precision MHD code, which has the fourth order accuracy for both the spatial and time steps, is developed, and is applied to the simulation studies of two dimensional driven reconnection. It is confirmed that the numerical dissipation of this new scheme is much less than that of two-step Lax-Wendroff scheme. The effect of the plasma compressibility on the reconnection dynamics is investigated by means of this high precision code.
- Publication:
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Advanced Plasma Modeling
- Pub Date:
- March 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988apm.....2...34K
- Keywords:
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- Computer Programs;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Plasma Compression;
- Spatial Resolution;
- Time Dependence;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Numerical Stability;
- Plasma Acceleration;
- Plasma Dynamics;
- Plasma Physics