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Context. Global MHD simulations show Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities at the contact surface of two merging neutron stars. That region has been identified as the site of efficient amplification of magnetic fields. However, these global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Obergaulinger , M. A. Aloy , E. Müller

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability can provide diffusive transport of angular momentum in astrophysical disks, and a widely studied computational model for this process is the ideal, stratified,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Benjamin R. Ryan , Charles F. Gammie , Sebastien Fromang , Pierre Kestener

There is a great need in several areas of astrophysics and space-physics to carry out high order of accuracy, divergence-free MHD simulations on spherical meshes. This requires us to pay careful attention to the interplay between mesh…

In this work we numerically test a model of Hall magnetohydrodynamics in the presence of a strong mean magnetic field, the reduced Hall MHD model (RHMHD) derived by Gomez et al., with the addition of weak compressible effects. The main…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 L. N. Martin , P. Dmitruk , D. O. Gomez

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

We discuss a novel instability in inertia-less electron magneto-hydrodynamics (EMHD), which arises from a combination of electron velocity shear and electron density gradients. The unstable modes have a lengthscale longer than the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Toby S Wood , Rainer Hollerbach , Maxim Lyutikov

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in solar physics, plasma physics and astrophysics and governs many properties of the flows of well-conductive fluids. Recently, conflicting spectral slopes for the inertial range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrey Beresnyak

Modeling and forecasting the solar wind-driven global magnetic field perturbations is an open challenge. Current approaches depend on simulations of computationally demanding models like the Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model or sampling…

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of superbubbles, to study the importance of MHD effects in the interpretation of images from recent surveys of the Galactic plane. These simulations focus mainly on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 J. M. Stil , N. D. Wityk , R. Ouyed , A. R. Taylor

We have carried out numerical simulations of freely decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in three dimensions, which can be applied to the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields in the early Universe. For helical magnetic fields an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Hindmarsh , M. Christensson , A. Brandenburg

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

Grid-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have proven invaluable for the study of astrophysical accretion disks. However, the fact that angular momentum transport in disks is mediated by MHD turbulence (with structure down to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kareem A. Sorathia , Christopher S. Reynolds , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

We study the linear and non-linear development of the Kruskal-Schwarzchild Instability in a relativisitically expanding striped wind. This instability is the generalization of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the presence of a magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Yuri Lyubarsky

The discovery of dynamical models from data represents a crucial step in advancing our understanding of physical systems. Library-based sparse regression has emerged as a powerful method for inferring governing equations directly from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Matthew Golden , Kaushik Satapathy , Dimitrios Psaltis

We presents results from Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing molecular cloud cores, and dynamo amplification of the magnetic field in the presence of Mach 10 magnetised turbulence. Our star formation simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath , Matthew R. Bate

We have studied forced turbulence of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows through two-dimensional simulations with different numerical resolutions. First, hydrodynamic turbulence with Mach number $<M_s >_{\rm init} \equiv < v >_{\rm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hyesook Lee , Dongsu Ryu , Jongsoo Kim , T. W. Jones , Dinshaw Balsara

In this paper we investigate the use of the vector potential as a means of maintaining the divergence constraint in the numerical solution of the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel J. Price

We perform cosmological, hydrodynamic simulations of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. The computational code combines the special-purpose hardware Grape for calculating gravitational interaction, and smooth-particle hydrodynamics for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Matthias Bartelmann , Harald Lesch

Magnetic reconnection, or the ability of the magnetic field lines that are frozen in plasma to change their topology, is a fundamental problem of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We briefly examine the problem starting with the well-known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

In this work we extend the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver in the moving mesh code AREPO to include the Hall effect. The core of our algorithm is based on an estimation of the magnetic field gradients by a least-square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Oliver Zier , Alexander C. Mayer , Volker Springel