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## Simulation of confined magnetohydrodynamic flows with Dirichlet boundary conditions using a pseudo-spectral method with volume penalization

Jorge Morales
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Wouter J.T. Bos
Kai Schneider

#### Abstract

A volume penalization approach to simulate magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows in confined domains is presented. Here the incompressible visco-resistive MHD equations are solved using parallel pseudo-spectral solvers in Cartesian geometries. The volume penalization technique is an immersed boundary method which is characterized by a high flexibility for the geometry of the considered flow. In the present case, it allows to use other than periodic boundary conditions in a Fourier pseudo-spectral approach. The numerical method is validated and its convergence is assessed for two- and three-dimensional hydrodynamic (HD) and MHD flows, by comparing the numerical results with results from literature and analytical solutions. The test cases considered are two-dimensional Taylor-Couette flow, the $z$-pinch configuration, three dimensional Orszag-Tang flow, ohmic-decay in a periodic cylinder, three-dimensional Taylor-Couette flow with and without axial magnetic field and three-dimensional Hartmann-instabilities in a cylinder with an imposed helical magnetic field.

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hal-00719737 , version 1 (20-07-2012)

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Jorge Morales, Matthieu Leroy, Wouter J.T. Bos, Kai Schneider. Simulation of confined magnetohydrodynamic flows with Dirichlet boundary conditions using a pseudo-spectral method with volume penalization. Journal of Computational Physics, 2014, 274, pp.64-94. ⟨10.1016/j.jcp.2014.05.038⟩. ⟨hal-00719737⟩

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