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We investigate properties of plasma turbulence from magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) to sub-ion scales by means of two-dimensional, high-resolution hybrid particle-in-cell simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field, perpendicular to…

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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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Romain Teyssier , Benoit Commercon

In anticipation of future multi-frequency observations of black hole with the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT), we construct spectral images of a thin accretion disk around a spherically symmetric black hole immersed in cold,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Kobialko , Dmitri Gal'tsov , Alexey Molchanov

We compare the results of numerical simulations of thin and quasi-spherical (thick) accretion flows with existing analytical solutions. We use a Lagrangian code based on the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme and an Eulerian finite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Diego Molteni , Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Hall-MHD is a mixed hyperbolic-parabolic partial differential equation that describes the dynamics of an ideal two fluid plasma with massless electrons. We study the only shock wave family that exists in this system (the other…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 George I. Hagstrom , Eliezer Hameiri

The role of slow-mode MHD shocks in magnetic reconnection is one of great importance for energy conversion and transport, but in many astrophysical plasmas the plasma is not fully ionised. In this paper, we investigate, using numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Andrew Hillier , Shinsuke Takasao , Naoki Nakamura

In this paper the new procedure for a construction of an approximated solution to initial data problem for one-dimensional pressureless gas dynamics system is introduced. The procedure is based on solving the Riemann problems and tracking…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Marko Nedeljkov , Sanja Ružičić

Single fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations have been studied through direct numerical simulations (DNS) using pseudo-spectral methods in two as well as three spatial dimensions. At Alfv\'en resonance, a reversible periodic exchange of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Rupak Mukherjee , Rajaraman Ganesh , Abhijit Sen

Turbulence in compressible plasma plays a key role in many areas of astrophysics and engineering. The extreme plasma parameters in these environments, e.g. high Reynolds numbers, supersonic and super-Alfvenic flows, however, make direct…

In this paper we introduce a new method for exact decomposition of propagating, nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disturbances into their component eigenenergies associated with the familiar slow, Alfv\'en, and fast wave eigenmodes, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Abbas Raboonik , Lucas Tarr , David Pontin

We present the theory, algorithms and implementation of a parallel finite-volume algorithm for the solution of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations using unstructured grids that are applicable for a wide variety of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-11 S. Vantieghem , A. Sheyko , A. Jackson

Soliton hydrodynamics is an appealing tool to describe strong turbulence in low-dimensional systems. Strong turbulence in quasi-one dimensional spuerfluids, such as Bose-Einstein condensates, involves the dynamics of dark solitons and,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-24 C. Pereira , J. D. Rodrigues , J. T. Mendonça , H. Terças

Spherically symmetric (1D) black-hole spacetimes are considered as a test for numerical relativity. A finite difference code, based in the hyperbolic structure of Einstein's equations with the harmonic slicing condition is presented.…

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The interaction of plasma with magnetic field in the partially ionised solar atmosphere is frequently modelled via a single-fluid approximation, which is valid for the case of a strongly coupled collisional media, such as solar photosphere…

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Flows are omnipresent and govern the dynamics of plasma. Solar tornadoes are a class of apparently rotating prominences, that might be formed by thermal instability. In spectroscopic studies on thermal instability background flow is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Joris Hermans , Rony Keppens

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

Context: We integrate the 2D MHD ideal equations of a straight slab to simulate observational results associated with fundamental sausage trapped modes. Aims: Starting from a non-equilibrium state with a dense chromospheric layer, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Cécere , A. Costa , O. Reula

We present preliminary results of Particle-In-Cell simulations of magnetic turbulence production by isotropic cosmic-ray ions streaming upstream of supernova remnant shocks. The studies aim at testing the MHD predictions by Bell (2004,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl