Constrained transport remap algorithms on unstructured quadrilateral and hexahedral grids

Pavel Bochev

Department of Mathematics Box 19408 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019-0408


Abstract

The constrained transport (CT) algorithm introduced by Evans and Hawley (1988) on structured meshes provides a mechanism for advection of magnetic flux density which also preserves a discrete div(B)=0 property. CT is extended to unstructured meshes and algorithms for computing high-order upwind fluxes on edges are compared. The natural association of edge and face elements with CT on unstructured meshes is discussed.