A few test cases were used to perform validation and verification by Xiaoliang Zhang. More details can ben seen in his Ph.D. thesis below.
Xiaoliang Zhang, CHORUS-MHD Code for Solar and Planetary Magnetohydrodynamics. Ph.D. dissertation, The George Washington University, 2019.
1. Alfven Wave Test Case
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/3rd-order-RK-Scheme-1.gif)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/3rd-order-STE-Scheme-1.gif)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Time-Accuracy-Validation-2-1024x911.jpg)
2. Magnetic Reconnection
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Resistivity-1E-3.gif)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Resistivity-5E-3.gif)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Resistivity-8E-3.gif)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Internal-energy-1024x907.jpg)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Kinetic-energy-1024x911.jpg)
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/Magnetic-energy-1024x910.jpg)
3. 3D Euler Vortex with AMR
![](https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2022/04/3D-Euler-Vortex-with-AMR.gif)