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Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…

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We consider a model for the propagation and absorption of electromagnetic waves (in the time-harmonic regime) in a magnetised plasma. We present a rigorous derivation of the model and several boundary conditions modelling wave injection…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Aurore Back , Takashi Hattori , Simon Labrunie , Jean-Rodolphe Roche , Pierre Bertrand

We present an algorithm for simulating the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics and other systems of differential equations on an unstructured set of points represented by sample particles. The particles move with the fluid, so the time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Colin P. McNally , Jason L. Maron , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

In this paper we use the symmetry reduction method to obtain invariant solutions of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations in (3+1) dimensions. These equations are invariant under a Galilean-similitude Lie algebra for which the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Picard

Central schemes for conservation laws are Riemann solver free methods which are simple and easy to implement. In recent work for Euler equations [Kurganov & Xin, J. Sci. Comput., 96:56, 2023] their accuracy has been enhanced in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yu-Chen Cheng , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

We propose the generally covariant action for the theory of a self-coupled complex scalar field and electromagnetism which by virtue of constraints is equivalent, in the regime of long wavelengths, to perfect magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Gerold Betschart

We present a fully Eulerian hybrid immersed-boundary/phase-field model to simulate wetting and contact line motion over any arbitrary geometry. The solid wall is described with a volume-penalisation ghost-cell immersed boundary whereas the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Armin Shahmardi , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Outi Tammisola , Luca Brandt

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

It is shown that incompressible spin quantum Hall magnetohydrodynamics allows an exact solution for the propagation of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave. The solution is obtained assuming a condition between the fluid velocity and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Felipe A. Asenjo

In this paper, we establish the mathematical validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory for a class of nonlinear plane parallel flows of viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow with no-slip boundary condition of velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Dongjuan Niu

This paper is concerned with the thermoelastic obstacle scattering problem in three dimensions. A uniaxial perfectly matched layer (PML) method is firstly introduced to truncate the unbounded scattering problem, leading to a truncated PML…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Qianyuan Yin , Changkun Wei , Bo Zhang

For scattering problems of time-harmonic waves, the boundary integral equation (BIE) methods are highly competitive, since they are formulated on lower-dimension boundaries or interfaces, and can automatically satisfy outgoing radiation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Wangtao Lu , Ya Yan Lu , Jianliang Qian

Incompressible stationary flows of ideal plasma are observed. By introduction of curvilinear system of coordinates in which streamlines and magnetic force lines form a family of coordinate surfaces, MHD equations are partially integrated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-05 Sergey V. Golovin

We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

Maxwell equations are solved in a layer comprising a finite number of homogeneous isotropic dielectric regions ended by anisotropic perfectly matched layers (PMLs). The boundary-value problem is solved and the dispersion relation inside the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diana C. Skigin

The incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (Hall--MHD) system presents substantial analytical and computational challenges due to its stiff, highly nonlinear Hall term and the strict requirement that the magnetic field remains solenoidal.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Beniamin Goldys , Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran

This work presents the first numerical investigation of using Voigt regularization as a method for obtaining magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria without the assumption of nested magnetic flux surfaces. Voigt regularization modifies the MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yi-Min Huang , Justin Kin Jun Hew , Andrew Brown , Amitava Bhattacharjee

The PML method is well-known for its exponential convergence rate and easy implementation for scattering problems with unbounded domains. For rough-surface scattering problems, authors in [5] proved that the PML method converges at most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Wangtao Lu , Kuanrong Shen , Ruming Zhang

We examine stability of summation by parts (SBP) numerical schemes that use hyperboloidal slices to include future null infinity in the computational domain. This inclusion serves to mitigate outer boundary effects and, in the future, will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Shalabh Gautam , Alex Vañó-Viñuales , David Hilditch , Sukanta Bose

We investigate the explicit convex relaxation of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. We provide a non-trivial lower estimate on the lamination hull and an upper estimate on the $\Lambda$-convex hull, the latter providing inequalities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Borbála Fazekas , József J. Kolumbán