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A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper. The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Farah Kanbar , Rony Touma , Christian Klingenberg

A new three-dimensional, non-linear Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model has been extended in MIPS code, incorporating parallel heat diffusivity. The model has been benchmarked against the former MHD model used in MIPS code. A preliminary study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Civit-Bertran , S. Futatani , Y. Suzuki , J. Dominguez-Palacios

In the present paper, we use a coarse-graining approach to investigate the nonlinear redistribution of free energy in both position and scale space for weakly collisional magnetised plasma turbulence. For this purpose, we use…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Bogdan Teaca , Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Daniel Told , Alejandro Banon Navarro , Frank Jenko

In order to study chromospheric magnetosonic wave propagation including, for the first time, the effects of ion-neutral interactions in the partially ionized solar chromosphere, we have developed a new multi-fluid computational model,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yana G. Maneva , Alejandro A. Laguna , Andrea Lani , Stefaan Poedts

In this work we present a new hybrid method to simulate the thermal effects of the reionization in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The method improves upon the standard approach used in simulations of the intergalactic medium (IGM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 Jose Oñorbe , F. B. Davies , Z. Lukić , J. F. Hennawi , D. Sorini

An analytical model for fully developed three-dimensional incompressible turbulence was recently proposed in the hydrodynamics community, based on the concept of multiplicative chaos. It consists of a random field represented by means of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 J. -B. Durrive , P. Lesaffre , K. Ferrière

We describe a new hybrid framework to model non-thermal spectral signatures from highly energetic particles embedded in a large-scale classical or relativistic MHD flow. Our method makes use of \textit{Lagrangian} particles moving through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Bhargav Vaidya , Andrea Mignone , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Silvano Massaglia

Magnetic fields are believed to play an essential role in astrophysical jets with observations suggesting the presence of helical magnetic fields. Here, we present three-dimensional (3D) ideal MHD simulationsof the Caltech plasma jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Xiang Zhai , Hui Li , Paul M. Bellan , Shengtai Li

On the basis of simple principles we derive and investigate the equations of relativistic plasma magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an arbitrary gravitational field. An exact solution describing the motion of magnetoactive plasma against the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-06 Yu. G. Ignatyev

An analytical representation of the interstellar magnetic field in the vicinity of the heliosphere is derived. The three-dimensional field structure close to the heliopause is calculated as a solution of the induction equation under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Christian Röken , Jens Kleimann , Horst Fichtner

A nonhydrostatic dynamical core has been developed by using the multi-moment finite volume method that ensures the rigorous numerical conservation. To represent the spherical geometry free of polar problems, the cubed-sphere grid is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Chungang Chen , Xingliang Li , Feng Xiao , Xueshun Shen

We present a new model of the heliospheric interface - the region of the solar wind interaction with the local interstellar medium. This new model performs a multi-component treatment of charged particles in the heliosphere. All charged…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yury G. Malama , Vlad V. Izmodenov , Sergey V. Chalov

New high-resolution observations reveal that small-scale magnetic flux concentrations have a delicate substructure on a spatial scale of 0.1''. Its basic structure can be interpreted in terms of a magnetic flux sheet or tube that vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oskar Steiner

Patterns of the magnetic signature of ionospheric currents, generated from an empirical model based on satellite observations, are used to build a statistical correlation based model for ionospheric fields. In order to stabilize the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 K. Ferrat , M. Schanner , V. Lesur , M. Holschneider , C. Stolle , J. Baerenzung

We derive new models of stochastic Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) by using a symmetry-reduced stochastic Euler-Poincar\'e variational principle. The new stochastic Hall MHD theory has potential applications for uncertainty quantification…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Darryl D. Holm , Ruiao Hu , Oliver D. Street

This paper describes the results of our theoretical and numerical studies of hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of spherical particles confined between two parallel planar walls, under creeping-flow conditions. We propose a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

Magnetic fields are widely observed in the Universe in virtually all astrophysical objects, from individual stars to entire galaxies, even in the intergalactic medium, but their specific generation has long been debated. Due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Michael Rieder , Romain Teyssier

To identify under what conditions guiding-centre or full-orbit tracing should be used, an estimation of the spatial variation of the magnetic field is proposed, not only taking into account gradient and curvature terms but also parallel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 David Pfefferlé , Jonathan P. Graves , Wilfred A. Cooper

The non-collisional interaction between conducting obstacles and magnetized plasma winds can be found in different scenarios, from the interaction occurring between regions inside galaxy clusters to the interaction between the solar wind…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Norberto Romanelli , Daniel Gomez , Cesar Bertucci , Magda Delva

The magnetospheric plasma distribution in the vicinity of a pulsar at various inclination angles is investigated using a new relativistic, parallel 3D Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code DYMPHNA3D. DYMPHNA3D uses a superposition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 John Mc Donald , Andrew Shearer