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Various formulations of smooth-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) have been proposed, intended to resolve certain difficulties in the treatment of fluid mixing instabilities. Most have involved changes to the algorithm which either introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Philip F. Hopkins

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

We present a new method for evolving the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (both Newtonian and relativistic) that is capable of maintaining a divergence-free magnetic field ($\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} = 0$) on adaptively refined, conformally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 P. Chris Fragile , Daniel Nemergut , Payden L. Shaw , Peter Anninos

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

In this paper, we present a new formulation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which, unlike the standard SPH (SSPH), is well-behaved at the contact discontinuity. The SSPH scheme cannot handle discontinuities in density (e.g. the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Satoko Yamamoto , Takayuki R. Saitoh , Junichiro Makino

We present 2D MHD numerical simulations of tearing-unstable current sheets coupled to a population of non-thermal test-particles, in order to address the problem of numerical convergence with respect to grid resolution, numerical method and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Eleonora Puzzoni , Andrea Mignone , Gianluigi Bodo

Dynamical decoupling can be used to preserve arbitrary quantum states despite undesired interactions with the environment, using control Hamiltonians affecting the system only. We present a system-independent analysis of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kaveh Khodjasteh , Daniel A. Lidar

We propose an optimally performant fully implicit algorithm for the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) equations based on multigrid-preconditioned Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods. HMHD is a challenging system to solve numerically because…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Luis Chacon

We present a new algorithm for numerical magnetohydrodynamics on staggered meshes preserving $\nabla \cdot B = 0$. Our algorithm is based on the constrained transport method and supports both cell-based adaptive mesh refinement and temporal…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Ilja Honkonen , Riku Jarvinen , David Phillips

Magneto-hydrodynamics is one of the foremost models in plasma physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion, astrophysics and elsewhere. Advanced numerical methods are needed to get an insight into the complex physical phenomena.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Jan Nikl , Milan Kuchařík , Stefan Weber

We present the first implementation of hyperbolic thermal conduction in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Hyperbolic conduction is a physically-motivated alternative to traditional, parabolic conduction. It incorporates a relaxation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 N. A. Owens , J. Wadsley

This paper mainly focus on optimal time decay estimation for large-solution about compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in 3D whole space, provided that $(\sigma_{0}-1,u_{0},M_{0})\in L^1\cap H^2$. In [2](Chen et al.,2019), they proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Shuai Wang , Fei Chen , Chuanbao Wang

A multi-symplectic formulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is developed based on a Clebsch variable variational principle in which the Lagrangian consists of the kinetic minus the potential energy of the MHD fluid modified by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , J. F. McKenzie , G. P. Zank

We describe a method for incorporating ambipolar diffusion in the strong coupling approximation into a multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics code based on the total variation diminishing scheme. Contributions from ambipolar diffusion terms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Jongsoo Kim , Paul J. Wiita

We present a 'two-fluid' implementation of dust in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in the test particle limit. The scheme is able to handle both short and long stopping times and reproduces the short friction time limit, which is not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Richard A. Booth , Debora Sijacki , Cathie J. Clarke

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a subject concerned with the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids (plasma) and can be applied in electric power generation. As a unique technology for producing direct-current electricity without moving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Osama A. Marzouk

We consider two strongly hyperbolic Hamiltonian formulations of general relativity and their numerical integration with a free and a partially constrained symplectic integrator. In those formulations we use hyperbolic drivers for the shift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 Ronny Richter

Although the influence of magnetic fields is regarded as vital in the star formation process, only a few magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations have been performed on this subject within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Florian Bürzle , Paul C. Clark , Federico Stasyszyn , Thomas Greif , Klaus Dolag , Ralf S. Klessen , Peter Nielaba

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the three-dimensional MHD equations near a background magnetic field with mixed fractional partial dissipation with $\alpha, \beta\in(\frac{1}{2}, 1]$. Namely, the velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

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