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Numerical simulations of dispersive turbulence in magnetized plasmas based on the Hall-MHD description are presented, assuming spatial variations along a unique direction making a prescribed angle with the ambient magnetic field. Main…

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We review the numerical techniques for ideal and non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) used in the context of star formation simulations. We outline the specific challenges offered by modeling star forming environments, which are dominated…

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A conservative scheme has been formulated and verified for gyrokinetic particle simulations of electromagnetic waves and instabilities in magnetized plasmas. An electron continuity equation derived from drift kinetic equation is used to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. Bao , Z. Lin , Z. X. Lu

Many local integral methods are based on an integral formulation over small and heavilly overlapping stencils with local RBF interpolations. These functions have become an extremely effective tool for interpolation on scattered node sets,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Luciano Ponzellini Marinelli , Nahuel Caruso , Margarita Portapila

We describe a single step, second-order accurate Godunov scheme for ideal MHD based on combining the piecewise parabolic method (PPM) for performing spatial reconstruction, the corner transport upwind (CTU) method of Colella for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas A. Gardiner , James M. Stone

The Material Point Method (MPM) has become a cornerstone of physics-based simulation, widely used in geomechanics and computer graphics for modeling phenomena such as granular flows, viscoelasticity, fracture mechanics, etc. Despite its…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Michael Liu , Xinlei Wang , Minchen Li

We present a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) scheme for the feedback linearization of nonlinear discrete-time dynamical systems. The PIML finds the nonlinear transformation law, thus ensuring stability via pole placement, in one…

We use three-dimensional simulations to study the statistics of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds. Our numerical experiments describe driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state, Mach numbers around 10, and various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-18 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

Astrophysical relativistic flow problems require high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. In this paper, we describe a new parallel three-dimensional code for simulations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Weiqun Zhang

Most numerical investigations on the role of magnetic fields in turbulent molecular clouds (MCs) are based on ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD). However, MCs are weakly ionized, so that the time scale required for the magnetic field to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pak Shing Li , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher

This study focuses on solving the numerical challenges of imposing absorbing boundary conditions for dynamic simulations in the material point method (MPM). To attenuate elastic waves leaving the computational domain, the current work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jun Kurima , Bodhinanda Chandra , Kenichi Soga

Newton's Method is widely used to find the solution of complex non-linear simulation problems in Computer Graphics. To guarantee a descent direction, it is common practice to clamp the negative eigenvalues of each element Hessian prior to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 José Antonio Fernández-Fernández , Fabian Löschner , Jan Bender

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

We present the results of three-dimensional simulations of supersonic Euler turbulence with grid resolutions up to 1024^3 points. Our numerical experiments describe nonmagnetized driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Rick Wagner , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

We present pseudospectral direct-numerical-simulation (DNS) studies of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations (3DRFMHD) with a stochastic force that has zero mean and a variance $\sim k^{-3}$, where $k$ is the wavenumber,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Ganapati Sahoo , Nadia Bihari Padhan , Abhik Basu , Rahul Pandit

Magnetic reconnection in laboratory, space and astrophysical plasmas is often invoked to explain explosive energy release and particle acceleration. However, the timescales involved in classical models within the macroscopic MHD regime are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Landi , E. Papini , L. Del Zanna , A. Tenerani , F. Pucci

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a hybrid Eulerian Lagrangian simulation technique for solid mechanics with significant deformation. Structured background grids are commonly employed in the standard MPM, but they may give rise to several…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yadi Cao , Yidong Zhao , Minchen Li , Yin Yang , Jinhyun Choo , Demetri Terzopoulos , Chenfanfu Jiang

We present a novel, physically-based morphing technique for elastic shapes, leveraging the differentiable material point method (MPM) with space-time control through per-particle deformation gradients to accommodate complex topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Michael Xu , Chang-Yong Song , David I. W. Levin , David Hyde

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…

Using the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description, we develop a nonlinear dynamo model that couples the evolution of the large scale magnetic field with turbulent dynamics of the plasma at small scale by electromotive force (e.m.f.) in the…

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