Primitive Variable Solvers for Conservative General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
Primitive Variable Solvers for Conservative General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
Conservative numerical schemes for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) require a method for transforming between "conserved" variables such as momentum and energy density and "primitive" variables such as rest-mass density, internal energy, and components of the four-velocity. The forward transformation (primitive to conserved) has a closed-form solution, but the inverse transformation …