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A finite volume method for two-moment cosmic ray hydrodynamics on a moving mesh.

Authors :
Thomas, T
Pfrommer, C
Pakmor, R
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. May2021, Vol. 503 Issue 2, p2242-2264. 23p.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

We present a new numerical algorithm to solve the recently derived equations of two-moment cosmic ray hydrodynamics (CRHD). The algorithm is implemented as a module in the moving mesh Arepo code. Therein, the anisotropic transport of cosmic rays (CRs) along magnetic field lines is discretized using a path-conservative finite volume method on the unstructured time-dependent Voronoi mesh of Arepo. The interaction of CRs and gyroresonant Alfvén waves is described by short time-scale source terms in the CRHD equations. We employ a custom-made semi-implicit adaptive time stepping source term integrator to accurately integrate this interaction on the small light-crossing time of the anisotropic transport step. Both the transport and the source term integration step are separated from the evolution of the magnetohydrodynamical equations using an operator split approach. The new algorithm is tested with a variety of test problems, including shock tubes, a perpendicular magnetized discontinuity, the hydrodynamic response to a CR overpressure, CR acceleration of a warm cloud, and a CR blast wave, which demonstrate that the coupling between CR and magnetohydrodynamics is robust and accurate. We demonstrate the numerical convergence of the presented scheme using new linear and non-linear analytic solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
503
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
149653191
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab397