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I’d agree with Dongwook, it looks like numerical instability. In absence of the log file showing the details of your setup and run, I would suggest you try the following if you haven’t already. Set both E_upwind and E_modification to .TRUE. in your flash.par.
What these flags do is improve the order of reconstruction for the electric fields (see Lee & Deane 2009). See the attached gif of a field loop moving across a jump in refinement with the various flags on or off. Not exactly the same as your issue, perhaps,
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<p class="airmail_on">On October 9, 2017 at 12:07:50 AM, Dongwook Lee (<a href="mailto:dongwook@flash.uchicago.edu">dongwook@flash.uchicago.edu</a>) wrote:</p>
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<div>It looks to me that they may come from numerical instability, although it could be an issue related to the use of AMR. What reconstruction scheme and CFL number are you using? Is this 2D or 3D?</div>
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Hi everyone,<br>
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I get a strange, unphysical feature in the magnetic field structure with the USM solver, seen in the attached slices of B_z and the magnetic pressure. These features, as you can see, track the block boundaries and look like a checkerboard of varying magnetic
field strength (and sign?) in individual grid cells. I've tried modifying every possible USM solver switch, including the Riemann solver, order, slope limiter, prolongation method, steepening, etc. Using Riemann Solver = HLLC instead of HLLD makes things a
little better, since HLLC is more diffusive, but the feature still eventually appears. Any advice on solving this or even minimizing its effects would be helpful!<br>
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