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Using relativistic, steady, axisymmetric, ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) we analyze the super-Alfvenic regime of a pulsar wind by means of solving the momentum equation along the flow as well as in the transfield direction. Employing a…

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In this paper, we investigate the similarity solutions for a steady laminar incompressible boundary layer equations governing the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow near the forward stagnation point of two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-David Hoernel

We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

We seek for self-similar solutions describing the time-dependent evolution of self-gravity systems with either spherical symmetry or axisymmetric disk geometry. By assuming self-similar variable $x\equiv r/at$ where $a$ is isothermal sound…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Yue Shen , Yu-Qing Lou

This paper studies Mullins' model of thermal grooving which consists of a surface diffusion flow equation with contact angle and no-flux boundary conditions. We consider this problem in a multi-dimensional half space and prove that if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yoshikazu Giga , Sho Katayama

This paper studies the global existence of classical solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) system with only magnetic diffusion on the periodic domain. The approach is based on a time-weighted energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Yi Zhou , Yi Zhu

We propose a result of global stability for the equations of homogeneous, incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on a torus of any dimension $d \in \{2,3,...\}$, with positive viscosity and resistivity. This result applies to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Livio Pizzocchero , Emanuele Tassi

The spherical collapse scenario has great importance in cosmology since it captures several crucial aspects of structure formation. The presence of self-similar solutions in the Einstein-de Sitter (EdS) model greatly simplifies its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Han Zhang , Tobias Weinzierl , Holger Schulz , Baojiu Li

In a comprehensive convergence study, we investigate the computational conditions necessary to resolve disk formation and jet-launching processes, and analyze possible caveats. We explore the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) processes of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Anders Kölligan , Rolf Kuiper

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87* and Sgr A*, the accretion disk around the central supermassive black hole is tenuous and collisionless. As a result, the usual ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation may not be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 John M. Mehlhaff , Alexander Y. Chen , Martin Luepker , Yajie Yuan

We construct a one-parameter family of exact time-dependent solutions to 2+1 gravity with a negative cosmological constant and a massless minimally coupled scalar field as source. These solutions present a continuously self-similar (CSS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerard Clement , Alessandro Fabbri

We present a two-loop field-theoretic analysis of incompressible helical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in fully developed stationary turbulence. A key feature of helical MHD is the appearance of an infrared-unstable ``mass-like'' term in the…

Disc-winds originating from the inner parts of accretion discs are considered as the basic component of magnetically collimated outflows. The only available analytical MHD solutions to describe disc-driven jets are those characterized by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthias Stute , Jose Gracia , Nektarios Vlahakis , Kanaris Tsinganos , Andrea Mignone , Silvano Massaglia

(accepted for publication in the Ap.J.) I present a general classification of self-similar solutions to the equations of gravitational hydrodynamics that contain many previous results as special cases. For cold flows with spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ue-Li Pen

The three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) isentropic flow with zero magnetic diffusivity is studied. The vanishing magnetic diffusivity causes significant difficulties due to the loss of dissipation of the magnetic field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Xiaoli Li , Ning Su , Dehua Wang

We are concerned on the possibility of finite time singularity in a partially viscous magnetohydrodynamic equations in $\Bbb R^n$, $n=2,3$, namely the MHD with positive viscosity and zero resistivity. In the special case of zero magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongho Chae

We extend the work by Appl and Camenzind (1988) for special relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) jets, to fully general relativistic studies of the standing shock formation for accreting MHD plasma in a rotating, stationary and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaaki Takahashi , Darrell Rilett , Keigo Fukumura , Sachiko Tsuruta

Recent high-angular resolution ALMA observations have revealed rich information about protoplanetary disks, including ubiquitous substructures and three-dimensional gas kinematics at different emission layers. One interpretation of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Xiao Hu , Zhi-Yun Li , Jaehan Bae , Zhaohuan Zhu

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the three-dimensional whole space, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated by geophysical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jincheng Gao , Xianpeng Hu , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu

In this work we introduce a novel semi-implicit structure-preserving finite-volume/finite-difference scheme for the viscous and resistive equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) based on an appropriate 3-split of the governing PDE system,…

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