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The rate of quasi-stationary, two-dimensional magnetic reconnection is calculated in the framework of incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The calculation is based on the solution of Hall-MHD equations that include Hall and…
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In this paper, the global smooth solution of Cauchy's problem of incompressible, resistive, viscous Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (Hall-MHD) is studied. By exploring the nonlinear structure of Hall-MHD equations, a class of large initial data…
The splitting method is a powerful method for solving partial differential equations. Various splitting methods have been designed to separate different physics, nonlinearities, and so on. Recently, a new splitting approach has been…
We present a geometric multigrid solver for the M1 model of radiative transfer without source terms. In radiative hydrodynamics applications, the radiative transfer needs to be solved implicitly because of the fast propagation speed of…
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Photonic computing has recently become an interesting paradigm for high-speed calculation of computing processes using light-matter interactions. Here, we propose and study an electromagnetic wave-based structure with the ability to…
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Recent applications (e.g. active gels and self-assembly of elastic sheets) motivate the need to efficiently simulate the dynamics of thin elastic sheets. We present semi-implicit time stepping algorithms to improve the time step constraints…
Solving the indefinite Helmholtz equation is not only crucial for the understanding of many physical phenomena but also represents an outstandingly-difficult benchmark problem for the successful application of numerical methods. Here we…
In this paper we are concerned with fast algorithms for the systems arising from the plane wave discretizations for two-dimensional Helmholtz equations with large wave numbers. We consider the plane wave weighted least squares (PWLS) method…
The PMCHWT integral equation enables the modelling of scattering of time-harmonic fields by penetrable, piecewise homogeneous, systems. They have been generalised to include the modelling of composite systems that may contain junctions,…
In this paper, we present a novel semi-implicit numerical scheme for the stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation driven by multiplicative noise. By reformulating the original equation into an equivalent stochastic scalar auxiliary variable…
A method for solving the half-space Sommerfeld problem is proposed, which allows us to obtain exact solutions in the form of Sommerfeld integrals, as well as their short-wave asymptotics. The first carried out by reducing the Sommerfeld…
In this paper, a higher-order time-discretization scheme is proposed, where the iterates approximate the solution of the stochastic semilinear wave equation driven by multiplicative noise with general drift and diffusion. We employ a…
Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…
(Abridged) We consider dynamics and turbulent interaction of whistler modes within the framework of inertialess electron MHD (EMHD). We argue there is no energy principle in EMHD: any stationary closed configuration is neutrally stable. We…
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