Research Projects

Large scale simulations of forced MHD turbulence

Principal investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Siddhartha Mishra, Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich
  • Andrew McMurry, CMA, University of Oslo
  • Nils Henrik Risebro, CMA, University of Oslo
  • Christian Klingenberg, University of Wuerzburg
  • Wolfram Schmidt, University of Goettingen

Start date: 01.10.2009

Description

Isotropic turbulence is induced in the ideal MHD equations through stochastic forcing. The main aim is use ALSVID (a massively parallel 3-D high-order finite volume code) to simulate the statistics of turbulence.

Publications

  • F. Fuchs, A. McMurry, S. Mishra, N. H. Risebro and K. Waagan. Approximate Riemann solver based high-order finite volume schemes for the MHD equations in multi-dimensions, Communications in Computational Physics, 9 (2011), pp. 324-362, doi

Funding

  • DAAD-RCN research project

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