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We investigate the linear stability of a sinusoidal shear flow with an initially uniform streamwise magnetic field in the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with finite resistivity and viscosity. This flow is known to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Adrian E. Fraser , Imogen G. Cresswell , Pascale Garaud

In this study, we find the points of transition between elliptic and hyperbolic regimes for the axisymmetric extended magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium equations. The ellipticity condition is expressed via a single inequality but is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , P. J. Morrison

In magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the magnetic field is evolved by the induction equation and coupled to the gas dynamics by the Lorentz force. We perform numerical smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (Spmhd) simulations and study the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. A. Stasyszyn , K. Dolag , A. M. Beck

To systematically stress a rotationally symmetric 3D magnetic null point by advecting the opposite footpoints of the spine axis in opposite directions. This stress eventually concentrates in the vicinity of the null point forming a local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Galsgaard , D. I. Pontin

The non-linear Hall term present in the induction equation in the electron-magneto-hydrodynamics limit is responsible for the Hall drift of the magnetic field and, in some cases, for the so-called Hall instability. We investigate whether or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-28 Jose A. Pons , Ulrich Geppert

Starting from an exact, steady-state, force-free solution of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, we investigate how resistive current layers are induced by perturbing line-tied three-dimensional magnetic equilibria. This is achieved by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Frederic Effenberger , I. J. D. Craig

We construct weak solutions to the ideal magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations which have finite total energy, and whose magnetic helicity is not a constant function of time. In view of Taylor's conjecture, this proves that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Rajendra Beekie , Tristan Buckmaster , Vlad Vicol

We consider the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) subjected to a strong magnetic field along $x_1$ direction in three-dimensional thin domains $\Omega_\delta=\mathbb{R}^2\times(-\delta,\delta)$ with slip boundary conditions. It is well-known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Li Xu

The Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) and tearing instabilities are likely to be important for the process of fast magnetic reconnection that is believed to explain the observed explosive energy release in solar flares. Theoretical studies of the…

The open problem of how singular current structures form in line-tied, three-dimensional magnetic fields is addressed. A Lagrangian magneto-frictional relaxation method is employed to model the field evolution towards the final…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 I. J. D. Craig , Frederic Effenberger

We are concerned with a model of ideal compressible isentropic two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Introducing an entropy-like function, we reduce the equations of two-fluid MHD to a symmetric form which looks like the classical MHD…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Lizhi Ruan , Yuri Trakhinin

We present a novel high-order nodal artificial viscosity approach designed for solving Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Unlike conventional methods, our approach eliminates the need for ad hoc parameters. The viscosity is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov

We examine the range of rest-mass densities, temperatures and magnetic fields involved in simulations of binary neutron star mergers (BNSM) and identify the conditions under which the ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) breaks down using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-12 Arus S. Harutyunyan

We provide compelling numerical evidence for the development of (potential) finite-time singularities in the three-dimensional (3D) axisymmetric, ideal, incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (IMHD) equations, in a wall-bounded cylindrical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-10 Venkata Sai Swetha Kolluru , Rahul Pandit

In this study, the dynamics of a dissipationless incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) medium are formulated as geodesics on a direct product of two volume-preserving diffeomorphism groups. Formulations are given for the geodesic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Keisuke Araki

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 investigate the existence and uniqueness issues of the 3D incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamic system supplemented with initial velocity $u_0$ and magnetic field $B_0$ in critical regularity spaces.In the case where $u_0,$ $B_0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Raphaël Danchin , Jin Tan

We investigate the density-shear instability in Hall-MHD via numerical simulation of the full non-linear problem, in the context of magnetar activity. We confirm the development of the instability of a plane-parallel magnetic field with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Todor Kondic , Maxim Lyutikov , Rainer Hollerbach

We prove the local wellposedness of the Cauchy problems for the electron magnetohydrodynamics equations (E-MHD) without resistivity for possibly large perturbations of nonzero uniform magnetic fields. While the local wellposedness problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-12 In-Jee Jeong , Sung-Jin Oh

We consider the free boundary problem for current-vortex sheets in ideal incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics. It is known that current-vortex sheets may be at most weakly (neutrally) stable due to the existence of surface waves solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Jean-Francois Coulombel , Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi
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