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Axisymmetric equilibria with incompressible flows of arbitrary direction are studied in the framework of magnetohydrodynamics under a variety of physically relevant side conditions. To this end a set of pertinent non-linear ODEs are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso , G. Poulipoulis

Our aim is to model the 3D magnetic field structure of the upper solar atmosphere, including regions of non-negligible plasma beta. We use high-resolution photospheric magnetic field measurements from SUNRISE/IMaX as boundary condition for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 T. Wiegelmann , T. Neukirch , D. H. Nickeler , S. K. Solanki , V. Martinez Pillet , J. M. Borrero

The equilibrium of a cylindrical plasma with purely poloidal mass flow and cross section of arbitrary shape is investigated within the framework of the ideal MHD theory. For the system under consideration it is shown that only…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , G. Pantis

We investigate the existence of magnetohydrostatic equilibria for topologically complex magnetic fields. The approach employed is to perform ideal numerical relaxation experiments. We use a newly-developed Lagrangian relaxation scheme that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-19 Simon Candelaresi , David Pontin , Gunnar Hornig

Turbulence in compressible plasma plays a key role in many areas of astrophysics and engineering. The extreme plasma parameters in these environments, e.g. high Reynolds numbers, supersonic and super-Alfvenic flows, however, make direct…

We present a Python code for calculating and displaying magnetic field extrapolations from given two-dimensional boundary conditions, specifically from solar surface magnetograms. The code implements analytical magnetohydrostatic models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lilli Nadol , Thomas Neukirch

We present two generalized hybrid kinetic-Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) models describing the interaction of a two-fluid bulk plasma, which consists of thermal ions and electrons, with energetic, suprathermal ion populations described by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , P. J. Morrison

A necessary and sufficient set of conditions for a quasisymmetric magnetic field in the form of constraint equations is derived from first principles. Without any assumption regarding the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium of the plasma,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Eduardo Rodriguez , Per Helander , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from photospheric vector magnetogram using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model. NLFFF extrapolation needs a considerable effort to be devoted for its numerical realization.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

A hybrid spectral/finite-element code is developed to numerically solve the resistive finite-pressure magnetohydrodynamic equilibria without the necessity of postulating nested magnetic flux surfaces in the non-axisymmetric toroidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Jian Zhang , Ping Zhu , Chris C. Hegna

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and two-fluid quasi-neutral equilibria with azimuthal symmetry, gravity and arbitrary ratios of (nonrelativistic) flow speed to acoustic and Alfven speeds are investigated. In the two-fluid case, the mass ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. G. McClements , A. Thyagaraja

Collisionless shocks are frequently analyzed using the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) formalism, even though MHD assumes a small mean free path. Yet, isotropy of pressure, fruit of binary collisions and assumed in MHD, may not apply in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Antoine Bret , Colby C. Haggerty , Ramesh Narayan

The equilibrium of a resistive axisymmetric plasma with purely toroidal flow surrounded by a conductor is investigated within the framework of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic theory. It is proved that a) the poloidal current density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos

According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional magnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations conducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er , Lorenzo Sironi , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The equations of motion for a fully ionized hydrogenic plasma in applied coaxial electric and magnetic fields are analyzed, where the term for the Hall effect in the generalized Ohm's law equation picks up a factor of 1/2 relative to its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Robert W. Johnson

This article introduces a new 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium solver, based on the concept of admissible variations of B, p that allows for magnetic relaxation of a magnetic field in a perturbed/non-minimum energy state to a lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Tobias Blickhan , Julianne Stratton , Alan A. Kaptanoglu

The noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to construct variational principles for symmetric equilibrium configurations of magnetized plasma including flow. In particular, helical symmetry is considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Tommaso Andreussi , Philip J. Morrison , Francesco Pegoraro

Cosmological field-level inference requires differentiable forward models that solve the challenging dynamics of gas and dark matter under hydrodynamics and gravity. We propose a hybrid approach where gravitational forces are computed using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Arne Thomsen , Tilman Tröster , François Lanusse

A single open magnetic flux tube spanning the solar photosphere (solar radius R) and the lower corona (R + 10 Mm) is modelled in magnetohydrostatic equilibrium within a realistic stratified atmosphere subject to solar gravity. Such flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-16 Frederick Armstrong Gent , Viktor Fedun , Stuart John Mumford , Robertus Erdelyi

We present a six-moment multi-fluid model, which solves the governing equations for both ions and electrons, with pressure anisotropy along and perpendicular to the magnetic field direction, as well as the complete set of Maxwell equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zhenguang Huang , Gabor Toth , Bart van der Holst , Yuxi Chen , Tamas Gombosi