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We present initial results of the first self-consistent numerical model of the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. By using the relativistic ``particle-in-cell'' method with special boundary conditions to represent plasma dynamics in 3D, we…

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We construct two classes of the magnetohydrostatic equilibria of the axisymmetric flux tubes with twisted magnetic fields in the stratified solar atmosphere that span from the photosphere to the transition region. We built the models by…

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The non-modal self-heating mechanism driven by the velocity shear in kinematically complex magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma flows is considered. The study is based on the full set of MHD equations including dissipative terms. The equations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zaza Osmanov , Andria Rogava , Stefaan Poedts

We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations are presented from the formation up to the late evolution of planetary nebula, for 6 different stellar models from 1 to 5 Mo. The hydrodynamical models use stellar evolution calculations as inner…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Guillermo Garcia-Segura , Arturo Manchado , Jesus A. Toala , Martin A. Guerrero , Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

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

The equilibrium of an axisymmetric magnetically confined plasma with anisotropic resistivity and toroidal flow is investigated in the framework of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The stationary states are determined by an elliptic differential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Poulipoulis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

In the present work, we study the geometric structures of the Rotating Shallow Water Magnetohydrodynamics (RSW-MHD) equations through a Lie group invariant Euler-Poincar\'e variational principle. In this geometric framework, we derive new,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Darryl D. Holm , Ruiao Hu , Oliver D. Street

By means of magnetohydrodynamic equations in a non relativistic multi fluid framework, we study the behavior of small amplitude perturbations in cold Quark Gluon Plasmas (QGP). Magnetohydrodynamic equations, along with the QGP equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-01 Azam Ghaani , Kurosh Javidan

To find out whether toroidal field can stably exist in galaxies the current-driven instability of toroidal magnetic fields is considered under the influence of an axial magnetic field component and under the influence of both rigid and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ruediger , M. Schultz , D. Elstner

We performed axisymmetric, grid-based, ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of oscillating cusp-filling tori orbiting a non-rotating neutron star. A pseudo-Newtonian potential was used to construct the constant angular momentum tori…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Varadarajan Parthasarathy , Wlodek Kluzniak , Miljenko Cemeljic

The tangential layers are characterized by a bulk plasma velocity and a magnetic field that are perpendicular to the gradient direction. They have been extensively described in the frame of the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) theory. But the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrice Mottez

Equations describing plasma equilibria are derived from the total energy of the system. The MHD equilibrium is shown to hold even for systems where the magnetic field may locally vanish. Through conservation of helicity, confinement is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 John Hedditch

We examine the hydromagnetic stability of magnetically confined mountains, which arise when material accumulates at the magnetic poles of an accreting neutron star. We extend a previous axisymmetric stability analysis by performing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Vigelius , A. Melatos

The current state of the art in pulsar magnetosphere modeling assumes the force-free limit of magnetospheric plasma. This limit retains only partial information about plasma velocity and neglects plasma inertia and temperature. We carried…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jason G. Li

We study how axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) accretion flows depend on gamma adiabatic index in the polytropic equation of state. This work is an extension of Moscibrodzka & Proga (2008), where we investigated the gamma dependence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga

Magnetic fields can play a major role in the dynamics of outstanding explosions associated to violent events such as GRBs and hypernovae, since they provide a natural mechanism to harness the rotational energy of the central proto-neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Matteo Bugli , Jérôme Guilet , Martin Obergaulinger

We investigate the stability of the Hall-MHD system and determine its importance for neutron stars at their birth, when they still consist of differentially rotating plasma permeated by extremely strong magnetic fields. We solve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Kondic , G. Ruediger , R. Arlt

In the context of the solar atmosphere, we re-examine the role of of neutral and ionized species in dissipating the ordered energy of intermediate-mode MHD waves into heat. We solve conservation equations for the hydrodynamics and for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Philip G. Judge

Since the first discovery of an extrasolar planetary system more than a decade ago, hundreds more have been discovered. Surprisingly, many of these systems harbor Jupiter-class gas giants located close to the central star, at distances of…

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