A Cell-centered Diffusion Finite Volume Scheme and it's Application to Magnetic Flux Compression Generators

A cell-centered finite volume scheme for discretizing diffusion operators on distorted quadrilateral meshes has recently been designed and added to APMFCG to enable that code to be used as a tool for studying explosive magnetic flux compression generators. This paper describes this scheme. Comparisons with analytic results for 2-D test cases are presented, as well as 2-D results from a test of a "realistic" generator configuration.

• Qiang Zhao
• Yina Shi
• Guangwei Yuan
• Zhiwei Dong

• Cell-centered FVM
• distorted meshes
• diffusion scheme
• MFCG.

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