HARM: A Numerical Scheme for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
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- 20 May 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 589 (1) , 444-457
- https://doi.org/10.1086/374594
Abstract
We describe a conservative, shock-capturing scheme for evolving the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, and van Leer scheme. A variant of constrained transport, proposed earlier by T\'oth, 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.Comment: 38 pages, 18 figures, submitted to ApKeywords
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