Convergence of Roberts flow dynamos in Eulerian and Lagrangian codes

arXiv:2610.08996 · physics.comp-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

physics.comp-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• alpha — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Primordial Magnetic Fields — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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