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High-speed turbulent flows are encountered in most space-related applications (including exploration, tourism and defense fields) and represent a subject of growing interest in the last decades. A major challenge in performing high-fidelity…

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We present an analysis of data stemming from numerical simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence up to grid resolution of 1536^3 points and up to Taylor Reynolds number of 1200. The initial conditions are such that the…

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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

The ideal MHD equations are a central model in astrophysics, and their solution relies upon stable numerical schemes. We present an implementation of a new method, which possesses excellent stability properties. Numerical tests demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Knut Waagan , Christoph Federrath , Christian Klingenberg

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We present the results of three-dimensional (3D) ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations on the dynamics of a perpendicularly inhomogeneous plasma disturbed by propagating Alfv\'enic waves. Simpler versions of this scenario have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-03 Norbert Magyar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Marcel Goossens

We present a robust and accurate numerical method for the anisotropic diffusion equation in curvilinear coordinates. This study extends the recent work [Muir et al., Computer Physics Communications, 2025] for solving the anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Dean Muir , Kenneth Duru , Stuart Hudson , Matthew Hole

In this paper we analyze a fully discrete scheme for a general Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with a nonsteady Magneto-hydrodynamics flow, which describes two immiscible, incompressible and electrically conducting fluids with different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Hailong Qiu

The advantages of high-order finite difference scheme for astrophysical MHD and turbulence simulations are highlighted. A number of one-dimensional test cases are presented ranging from various shock tests to Parker-type wind solutions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Axel Brandenburg

Preserving scalar boundedness is important for numerical schemes used in turbulent compressible multi-component flow simulations to prevent unphysical results and unstable simulations. However, ensuring scalar boundedness for high-order,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Ye Wang , Armin Wehrfritz , Evatt R. Hawkes

The rate of magnetic field diffusion plays an essential role in several astrophysical plasma processes. It has been demonstrated that the omnipresent turbulence in astrophysical media induces fast magnetic reconnection, which consequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 R. Santos-Lima , G. Guerrero , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

The speed of sound in two-phase pipe flow systems is often several orders of magnitude greater than the travelling speed of hydraulic information (volume fractions.) Dynamically simulating such flows requires resolution of acoustic and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Andreas Holm Akselsen

We develop an unconditionally stable numerical method for solving the coupling between two fluids (frictional forces/heatings, ionization, and recombination), and investigate the dynamical condensation process of thermally unstable gas that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We describe a numerical method to solve the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The fluid variables are updated along each direction using the flux conservative, 2nd order, total variation diminishing (TVD), upwind scheme of Jin and Xin.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ue-Li Pen , Phil Arras , ShingKwong Wong

We test a new "hybrid" scheme for simulating dynamical fluid flows in which cylindrical components of the momentum are advected across a rotating Cartesian coordinate mesh. This hybrid scheme allows us to conserve angular momentum to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zachary D. Byerly , Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach , Joel E. Tohline , Dominic C. Marcello

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

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

The paper presents two contributions in the context of the numerical simulation of magnetized fluid dynamics. First, we show how to extend the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with an inbuilt magnetic field divergence cleaning…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Dominik Derigs , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Marvin Bohm

This paper focuses on the 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations without magnetic diffusion in a periodic domain. We present a systematic approach to establishing the global existence of smooth solutions when the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu