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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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Lile Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

We prove the existence of global in time, finite energy, weak solutions to a quantum magnetohydrodynamic system (QMHD) with large data, modeling a charged quantum fluid interacting with a self-generated electromagnetic field. The analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Raffaele Scandone

We present numerical studies of the nonlinear, resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) evolution of coronal loops. For these simulations we assume that the loops carry no net current, as might be expected if the loop had evolved due to vortex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. D. Arber , A. W. Longbottom , R. A. M. Van der Linden

Especially in cold and high-density regions, the assumptions of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can break down, making first order non-ideal terms such as Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion as well as the Hall effect important. In this study we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel , Alexander C. Mayer

The plasmoid instability in evolving current sheets has been widely studied due to its effects on the disruption of current sheets, the formation of plasmoids, and the resultant fast magnetic reconnection. In this Letter, we study the role…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Amitava Bhattacharjee

This paper aims to numerically verify the large Reynolds number asymptotic theory of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flows proposed in the companion paper Deguchi (2019). To avoid any complexity associated with the chaotic nature of turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kengo Deguchi

The work extends the computational model EULAG-MHD to include Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD)---important to explore physical systems undergoing fast magnetic reconnection at the order of the ion inertial length scale. Examples include…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Kamlesh Bora , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

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

In order to gain deeper insight into the physics of the novel rotating solution of nonideal transverse magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), presented in one of our recent works, we replace the previously considered Maxwell theory with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 N. Sadooghi , M. Shokri

Many problems at the forefront of theoretical astrophysics require the treatment of magnetized fluids in dynamical, strongly curved spacetimes. Such problems include the origin of gamma-ray bursts, magnetic braking of differential rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Branson C. Stephens

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occuring at the interface of a shear flow configuration in 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The linear growth and the subsequent non-linear saturation of the instability are studied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Keppens , G. Toth , R. H. J. Westermann , J. P. Goedbloed

Of concern in this paper is an investigation of heat and mass transfer over a stretching sheet under the influence of an applied uniform magnetic field and the effects of Hall current are taken into account. The non-linear boundary layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-07 G. C. Shit

We derive a new shell model of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in which the energy transfers are not necessary local. Like the original MHD equations, the model conserves the total energy, magnetic helicity, cross-helicity and volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Plunian , R. Stepanov

In this paper, we prove the non-uniform continuity of the data-to-solution map for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with only magnetic diffusion in Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb{R}^d)$ for all $s>0$ and $d=2,3$. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Quansen Jiu , Yaowei Xie

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of smooth solutions to the generalized Hall-magneto-hydrodynamics system (1.1) with one single diffusion on the whole space $\mathbb R^3$. We establish that, in the inviscid resistive case, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Mimi Dai , Han Liu

Implosive formation of current sheets is a fundamental plasma process. Previous studies focused on the early time evolution, while here our primary aim is to explore the longer-term evolution, which may be critical for determining the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 J. O. Thurgood , D. I. Pontin , J. A. McLaughlin

A new neutrino magnetohydrodynamics (NMHD) model is formulated, where the effects of the charged weak current on the electron-ion magnetohydrodynamic fluid are taken into account. The model incorporates in a systematic way the role of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Fernando Haas , Kellen Alves Pascoal , José Tito Mendonça

We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi

A new implementation for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity (involving dynamical spacetimes) is presented. In our implementation, Einstein's evolution equations are evolved by a BSSN formalism, MHD equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masaru Shibata , Yu-ichiou Sekiguchi

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama