Hi Aaron,<div> Are you able to overlay the grid so we can see how these features relate to the blocksize?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> -Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Aaron Froese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron.froese@generalfusion.com">aaron.froese@generalfusion.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am using the USM MHD solver with flash3 and I noticed that I am getting very large magnetic monopoles appearing in my solution, of the same order as the magnetic fields. The monopoles appear in a somewhat random checkboard-like pattern, which I believe has something to do with the block-structure of the mesh. I have attached two plots which show the magnitude of divb and posted copies online in case the mailing list does not allow file attachments.<br>
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Cylindrical Shell Compression 2D - abs(divb)<br>
<a href="http://oi40.tinypic.com/1zeihbp.jpg" target="_blank">http://oi40.tinypic.com/1zeihbp.jpg</a><br>
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Spherical Shell Compression 3D - abs(divb)<br>
<a href="http://oi39.tinypic.com/34grldv.jpg" target="_blank">http://oi39.tinypic.com/34grldv.jpg</a><br>
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The central circle where the checkboard pattern appears is the only volume that is magnetized. I am using a static AMR mesh with a uniform resolution across the magnetized volume, and less refinement in the surrounding non-magnetized fluid. Has anyone observed similar behaviour? It is definitely numerical in nature, but I do not know what part of the code is responsible.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Aaron</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Mark Richardson, <br><a href="mailto:Mark.L.Richardson@asu.edu" target="_blank">Mark.L.Richardson@asu.edu</a><div>Ph.D. Candidate: Astrophysics<br>PSF 271<br>
School of Earth and Space Exploration<br>Arizona State University<br>480 318-4449<br><a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~mlricha4" target="_blank">www.public.asu.edu/~mlricha4</a><br></div><br>
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