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We present a computational method to solve the magnetohydrodynamic equations in spherical geometry. The technique is fully nonlinear and wholly spectral, and uses an expansion basis that is adapted to the geometry: Chandrasekhar-Kendall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery

An axisymmetric MHD model is examined analytically to illustrate some key aspects of the physics of hot and magnetized outflows which originate in the near environment of a central gravitating body. By analyzing the asymptotical behaviour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sauty , K. Tsinganos , E. Trussoni

A fully general relativistic description of the pulsar magnetosphere is provided. To be more concrete, a study of the pulsar magnetosphere is performed in the context of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) employing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongsu Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Chul H. Lee , Hyun Kyu Lee

We consider relativistic, stationary, axisymmetric, polytropic, unconfined, perfect MHD winds, assuming their five lagrangian first integrals to be known. The asymptotic structure consists of field-regions bordered by boundary layers along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Heyvaerts , C. Norman

We formulate the problem of the formation and collapse of nonaxisymmetric protostellar cores in weakly ionized, self-gravitating, magnetic molecular clouds. In our formulation, molecular clouds are approximated as isothermal, thin (but with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Glenn E. Ciolek , Shantanu Basu

Due to the absence of dissipation mechanism to the inviscid compressible systems, it is a challenging problem to prove their global solvability. In this paper, we are concerned with the initial-boundary value problem to the inviscid and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jinkai Li , Liening Qiao

The aim is to justify rigorously the so-called reduced magnetohydrodynamic model (abbreviated as RMHD), which is widely used in fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. Motivated by physics, the focus is on plasmas that are simultaneously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Nicolas Besse , Christophe Cheverry

We present the exact solutions for the collapse of a spherically-symmetric, cold (i.e., pressureless) cloud under its own self-gravity, valid for arbitrary initial density profiles and not restricted to the realm of self-similarity. These…

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In giant molecular clouds (GMCs), shocks driven by converging turbulent flows create high-density, strongly-magnetized regions that are locally sheetlike. In previous work, we showed that within these layers, dense filaments and embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Che-Yu Chen , Eve C. Ostriker

We introduce an application of the Quasi-Gasdynamic method for a solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations in the modeling of compressible conductive gas flows. A time-averaging procedure is applied for all physical parameters in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 M. V. Popov , T. G. Elizarova , S. D. Ustyugov

Theoretically, stars have been formed from the collapse of cores in the molecular clouds. Historically, the core had been assumed as an singular isothermal sphere (SIS), and the collapse had been investigated by a self-similar manner. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

We present general relativistic solutions for self-similar spherical perturbations in an expanding cosmological background of cold pressure-less gas. We focus on solutions having shock discontinuities propagating in the surrounding cold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adi Nusser

We exactly solve the nonequilibrium dynamics of a harmonically trapped self-propelled particle with anisotropic translational mobility in two dimensions, relevant to rodlike microswimmers and wheeled robots. The mean displacement and MSD…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Amir Shee , P. S. Pal

An ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) was used to investigate the interactions of fast-mode shocks with self-gravitating, isothermal cores with mass-to-flux ratios that are somewhat below the minimum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Vaidya , T. W. Hartquist , S. A. E. G. Falle

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and two-fluid quasi-neutral equilibria with azimuthal symmetry, gravity and arbitrary ratios of (nonrelativistic) flow speed to acoustic and Alfven speeds are investigated. In the two-fluid case, the mass ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. G. McClements , A. Thyagaraja

This paper studies the instability of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems on a sphere using analytical methods. The underlying flow consists of a zonal differential rotation and a toroidal magnetic field is present. Semicircle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chen Wang , Andrew D. Gilbert , Joanne Mason

With proper physical mechanisms of energy and momentum input from around the centre of a self-gravitating polytropic gas sphere, a central spherical "void" or "cavity" or "bubble" of very much less mass contents may emerge and then…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yu-Qing Lou , Li-Le Wang

We construct analytically stationary global configurations for both aligned and logarithmic spiral coplanar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) perturbations in an axisymmetric background MHD disc with a power-law surface mass density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yue Shen , Xin Liu , Yu-Qing Lou

We present three-dimensional (3-D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flow around black holes. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We start…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige , Kazunari Shibata

We construct stationary global configurations of both aligned and unaligned logarithmic spiral perturbations in a composite disc system of stellar and isopedically magnetized gaseous singular isothermal discs (SIDs) coupled by gravity. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Q. Lou , Y. Wu