MHD simulations on an unstructured mesh

Conference · Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:334072

Strauss, H R ^[1]; Park, W; Belova, E; Fu, G Y ^[2]; Longcope, D W ^[3]; Sugiyama, L E ^[4]

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1. New York Univ., NY (United States)
2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Plasma Physics Lab.
3. Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT (United States)
4. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Two reasons for using an unstructured computational mesh are adaptivity, and alignment with arbitrarily shaped boundaries. Two codes which use finite element discretization on an unstructured mesh are described. FEM3D solves 2D and 3D RMHD using an adaptive grid. MH3D++, which incorporates methods of FEM3D into the MH3D generalized MHD code, can be used with shaped boundaries, which might be 3D.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin, Center for Plasma Theory and Computation, Madison, WI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-86ER53223; AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 334072
• Report Number(s): CONF-9803121--PROC.; ON: DE99001004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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