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The aim is to justify rigorously the so-called reduced magnetohydrodynamic model (abbreviated as RMHD), which is widely used in fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. Motivated by physics, the focus is on plasmas that are simultaneously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Nicolas Besse , Christophe Cheverry

Dynamics of relativistic outflows along the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole is investigated using a simple model that takes into account the relativistic tidal force of the central source as well as the Lorentz force due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon , B. Punsly

We numerically demonstrate the feasibility of kinematic fast dynamos for a class of time-periodic axisymmetric flows of conducting fluid confined inside a sphere. The novelty of our work is in considering the realistic flows, which are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 I. V. Khalzov , C. M. Cooper , C. B. Forest

An exact analytic solution has been obtained for a uniformly expanding, neutral, infinitely conducting plasma cylinder in an external uniform and constant magnetic field. The electrodynamical aspects related to the emission and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

The propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasmas in a state where a global mode has been established or is in turbulence, are of theoretical and experimental interest in thermonuclear fusion research.…

We investigate various analytical and numerical techniques for the coupling of nonlinear hyperbolic systems and, in particular, we introduce here an augmented formulation which allows for the modeling of the dynamics of interfaces between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Benjamin Boutin , Frédéric Coquel , Philippe G. LeFloch

We investigate the behavior of flows, including turbulent flows, driven by a horizontal body-force and subject to a vertical magnetic field, with the following question in mind: for very strong applied magnetic field, is the flow mostly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Basile Gallet , Charles R. Doering

Relative magnetic helicity is conserved by magneto-hydrodynamic evolution even in the presence of moderate resistivity. For that reason, it is often invoked as the most relevant constraint to the dynamical evolution of plasmas in complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Gherardo Valori , Pascal Démoulin , Etienne Pariat , Anthony Yeates , Kostas Moraitis , Luis Linan

Some of the most interesting scenarios that can be studied in astrophysics, contain fluids and plasma moving under the influence of strong gravitational fields. To study these problems it is required to implement numerical algorithms robust…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-08 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , J. P. Cruz-Perez , F. S. Guzman , J. A. Gonzalez

We consider the complete Euler system describing the time evolution of an inviscid non-isothermal gas. We show that the rarefaction wave solutions of the 1D Riemann problem are stable, in particular unique, in the class of all bounded weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Eduard Feireisl , Ondřej Kreml , Alexis Vasseur

We revisit the double adiabatic evolution equations and extend them to the relativistic and ultrarelativistic regimes. We analytically solve the relativistic, time-dependent drift kinetic equation for a homogeneous, magnetized,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Francisco Ley , Aaron Tran , Ellen G. Zweibel

It is known that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation describes the self-modulation of a large amplitude circularly polarized wave in relativistic electron-positron plasmas in the weakly and strongly magnetized limits. Here, we show that such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Felipe A. Asenjo

In this paper we study the compressible magnetohydrodynamics equations in three dimensions, which offer a good model for plasmas. Formation of singularity for C1-solution in finite time is proved with axisymmetric initial data. The key…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Lv Cai , Ning-An Lai

Recent experiments have demonstrated the spontaneous evolution of a gas of ultracold Rydberg atoms into an expanding ultracold plasma, as well as the reverse process of plasma recombination into highly excited atomic states. Treating the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Pohl , T. Pattard , J. M. Rost

A detailed derivation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) scheme for relativistic fluids recently proposed in Ref. [1], is presented. The method is numerically validated and applied to the case of two quite different relativistic fluid dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-28 M. Mendoza , B. M. Boghosian , H. J. Herrmann , S. Succi

The relativistic kinetic theory of the phonon gas in superfluids is developed. The technique of the derivation of macroscopic balance equations from microscopic equations of motion for individual particles is applied to an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Popov

A multistream model for spinless electrons in a relativistic quantum plasma is introduced by means of a suitable fluid-like version of the Klein-Gordon-Maxwell system. The one and two-stream cases are treated in detail. A new linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Haas , B. Eliasson , P. K. Shukla

The minimalist approach in the study of perturbations in fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics involves describing their evolution in the linear regime using a single first-order ordinary differential equation, dubbed principal equation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-18 Nektarios Vlahakis

We investigate transverse electromagnetic waves propagating in a plasma in the de Sitter space. Using the 3+1 formalism we derive the relativistic two-fluid equations to take account of the effects due to the horizon and describe the set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 M. Atiqur Rahman , M. Hossain Ali

This paper is devoted to investigate the cold plasma wave properties. The analysis has been restricted to the neighborhood of the pair production region of the Kerr magnetosphere. The Fourier analyzed general relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-03 M. Sharif , Umber Sheikh