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HARM: A Numerical Scheme for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

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, , Citation Charles F. Gammie et al 2003 ApJ 589 444 DOI 10.1086/374594

0004-637X/589/1/444

Abstract

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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