An Extension of Gmunu: General-relativistic Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics Based on Staggered-meshed Constrained Transport with Elliptic Cleaning

Abstract

We present the implementation of general-relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics solvers and three divergence-free handling approaches adopted in the G eneral-relativistic mu ltigrid nu merical ( Gmunu ) code. In particular, implicit–explicit Runge–Kutta schemes are used to deal with the stiff terms in the evolution equations for small resistivity. The three divergence-free handling methods are (i) hyperbolic divergence cleaning (also known as the generalized Lagrange multiplier), (ii) staggered-meshed constrained transport schemes, and (iii) elliptic cleaning through a multigrid solver, which is applicable in both cell-centered and face-centered (stagger grid) magnetic fields. The implementation has been tested with a number of numerical benchmarks from special-relativistic to general-relativistic cases. We demonstrate that our code can robustly recover from the ideal magnetohydrodynamics limit to a highly resistive limit. We also illustrate the applications in modeling magnetized neutron stars, and compare how different divergence-free handling methods affect the evolution of the stars. Furthermore, we show that the preservation of the divergence-free condition of the magnetic field when using staggered-meshed constrained transport schemes can be significantly improved by applying elliptic cleaning.