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Hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary discs with planets typically assume that the disc is viscously driven, even though magnetic disc winds are now considered the primary driver of angular momentum transport through the disc. Magnetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Michael Hammer , Min-Kai Lin

An exospheric kinetic solar wind model is interfaced with an observation-driven single fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model. Initially, a photospheric magnetogram serves as observational input in the fluid approach to extrapolate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Sofia-Paraskevi Moschou , Viviane Pierrard , Rony Keppens , Jens Pomoell

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their driven shocks are a major source of large geomagnetic storms due to their large and long-lasting, southward component of magnetic field in the sheath and the flux rope (e.g., magnetic cloud).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Chin-Chun Wu , Kan Liou , Brian Wood , Keiji Hayashi

It has recently been established that the evolution of protoplanetary disks is primarily driven by magnetized disk winds, requiring large-scale magnetic flux threading the disks. The size of such disks is expected to shrink in time, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Haifeng Yang , Xue-Ning Bai

Giant planets embedded in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can create annulus density gaps around their orbits in the type-II regime, potentially responsible for the ubiquity of annular substructures observed in PPDs. Despite of substantial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Yuhiko Aoyama , Xuening Bai

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

Cross-helicity dominated distributed chaos (CHDC) for magnetohydrodynamic (large-scale) and kinetic (small-scale) ranges of space plasmas has been studied using results of direct numerical simulations and of measurements made in the Earth's…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 A. Bershadskii

We present two-dimensional, cylindrically symmetric simulations of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wide-angle winds interacting with a collapsing environment. These simulations have direct relevance to young stellar objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Gardiner , A. Frank , L. Hartmann

Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) adaptive mesh refinement simulations, we study the formation and early evolution of disk galaxies with a magnetized interstellar medium. For a $10^{10}$ \msun halo with initial NFW dark matter and gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Peng Wang , Tom Abel

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

Long-term ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive neutron star formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. Neutrino radiation transport effects are taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We use the MHD with embedded particle-in-cell model (MHD-EPIC) to study the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) dayside kinetic processes challenge event at 01:50-03:00 UT on 2015-11-18, when the magnetosphere was driven by a steady…

Comprehending the manner in which magnetic fields affect propagating waves is a first step toward constructing accurate helioseismic models of active region sub-surface structure and dynamics. Here, we present a numerical method to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge

We present initial results from the first 3-dimensional numerical magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of magnetic field evolution in merging clusters of galaxies. Within the framework of idealized initial conditions similar to our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Roettiger , J. M. Stone , J. O. Burns

The distinctive morphology of head-tail radio galaxies reveals strong interactions between the radio jets and their intra-cluster environment, the general consensus on the morphology origin of head-tail sources is that radio jets are bent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Zhaoming Gan , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Feng Yuan

Magnetic fields significantly influence the structure of galaxies' interstellar media, but our understanding of magnetic field strengths and structures in external galaxies is severely limited. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offers a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-30 Hilay Shah , Mark Krumholz , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

The magnetopause marks the outer edge of the Earth's magnetosphere and a distinct boundary between solar wind and magnetospheric plasma populations. In this letter, we use global magnetohydrodynamic simulations to examine the response of…

The inner regions of protoplanetary discs, which encompass the putative habitable zone, are dynamically complex, featuring a relatively well-ionised, turbulent active zone located interior to a poorly ionised 'dead' zone. In this second…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Matthew J. O. Roberts , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), the large-scale eruptive phenomena capable of shedding a huge amount of solar magnetic helicity and energy are potential in driving strong geomagnetic storms. They complexly evolve while…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Sanchita Pal , Cecilia Mac Cormack , Emilia K. J. Kilpua , Yogesh , Lan K. Jian , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla

Data from the Voyager probes and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer have revealed the importance of pick-up ions (PUIs) in understanding the character and behavior of the outer heliosphere, the region of interaction between the solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 Christina Prested , Merav Opher , Gabor Toth