Rarefaction Shocks, Shock Errors and Low Order of Accuracy in ZEUS

Abstract

We show that there are simple one dimensional problems for which the MHD code, ZEUS, generates significant errors, whereas upwind conservative schemes perform very well on these problems.

11 pages, accepted in ApJ Letters

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