Numerical treatment of the nonconservative product in a multiscale fluid model for plasmas in thermal nonequilibrium: application to solar physics
Résumé
This contribution deals with the modeling of collisional multicomponent magnetized plasmas in thermal and chemical nonequilibrium aiming at simulating and predicting magnetic reconnections in the chromosphere of the sun. We focus on the numerical simulation of a simplified fluid model in order to properly investigate the influence on shock solutions of a nonconservative product present in the electron energy equation. Then, we derive jump conditions based on travelling wave solutions and propose an original numerical treatment in order to avoid non-physical shocks for the solution, that remains valid in the case of coarse-resolution simulations. A key element for the numerical scheme proposed is the presence of diffusion in the electron variables, consistent with the physically-sound scaling used in the model developed by Graille et al. following a multiscale Chapman-Enskog expansion method [M3AS, 19 (2009) 527--599]. The numerical strategy is eventually assessed in the framework of a solar physics test case. The computational method is able to capture the travelling wave solutions in both the highly- and coarsely-resolved cases.
Mots clés
76N15
82D10
jump conditions
finite volume schemes
finite volume schemes 20 AMS subject classifications 65M08
plasma out of thermal equilibrium
two-temperature plasmas
Fluid model
travelling wave
nonconservative product
19 shock wave
76L05 21
shock wave
Fluid model from kinetic theory
traveling wave
76M12
solar physics
finite volume schemes AMS subject classifications 65M08
76L05
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