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Magnetohydrodynamics is a theory of long-lived, gapless excitations in plasmas. It was argued from the point of view of fluid with higher-form symmetry that magnetohydrodynamics remains a consistent, non-dissipative theory even in the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-14 Bartosz Benenowski , Napat Poovuttikul

Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

Motivated by the increased interest in pulsed-power magneto-inertial fusion devices in recent years, we present a method for implementing an arbitrarily shaped embedded boundary on a Cartesian mesh while solving the equations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Samuel W. Jones , Colin P. McNally , Meritt Reynolds

The tearing mode instability is a key process for magnetic energy conversion in magnetohydrodynamics, once anti-parallel components are allowed to reconnect, leading to the formation of magnetic islands. It has been employed to explain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves

We present a new divergence-free and well-balanced hybrid FV/FE scheme for the incompressible viscous and resistive MHD equations on unstructured mixed-element meshes in 2 and 3 space dimensions. The equations are split into subsystems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 F. Fambri , E. Zampa , S. Busto , L. Río-Martín , F. Hindenlang , E. Sonnendrücker , M. Dumbser

In this paper, we present exact divergence-free spectral method for solving the incompressible and resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations in two and three dimensions, as well as the efficient solution algorithm and unconditionally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Lechang Qin , Huiyuan Li , Zhiguo Yang

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have been used to study disk accretion to a rotating magnetized star with an aligned dipole moment. Quiescent initial conditions were developed in order to avoid the fast initial evolution seen in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

We present an algorithm for simulating the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics and other systems of differential equations on an unstructured set of points represented by sample particles. The particles move with the fluid, so the time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Colin P. McNally , Jason L. Maron , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We present and compare third- as well as fifth-order accurate finite difference schemes for the numerical solution of the compressible ideal MHD equations in multiple spatial dimensions. The selected methods lean on four different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mignone , P. Tzeferacos , G. Bodo

The standard magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of the plasma in the hot, magnetized gas of the intra-cluster (ICM) medium is not adequate because it is weakly collisional. In such collisionless magnetized gas, the microscopic velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , D. Falceta-Gonçalves

Unconfined relativistic outflows from rotating, magnetized compact objects are often well-modeled by assuming the field geometry is approximately a split-monopole at large radii. Earlier work has indicated that such an unconfined flow has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-29 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

This paper focuses on an optimal error analysis of a fully discrete finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard--magnetohydrodynamic (CH-MHD) system. The method use the standard inf-sup stable Taylor--Hood/MINI elements to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Haiyan Su , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Ke Zhang

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for solving the inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By utilizing the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach for dealing with the convective and coupling terms, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Xiaodi Zhang , Xianghai Zhou

We present a formulation and numerical algorithm to extend the scheme for grey radiation magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) developed by Jiang (2021) to include the frequency dependence via the multi-group approach. The entire frequency space can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 Yan-Fei Jiang

The force-free (or low inertia) limit of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be applied to many astrophysical objects, including black holes, neutron stars, and accretion disks, where the electromagnetic field is so strong that the inertia and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Cong Yu

Numerical simulations shed light onto earlier not trackable problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. They allowed to test the predictions of different models and choose the correct ones. Inevitably, this progress calls for revisions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-27 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

The global regularity for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations (MHD) in three dimensions is a long standing open problem of fluid dynamics and PDE theory. The Navier-Stokes equations can be viewed as a special case of MHD with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Zhen Lei

We develop a framework for magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations in a local cylindrical shearing box by extending the formulation of the Cartesian shearing box. We construct shearing-periodic conditions at the radial boundaries of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Takeru K. Suzuki , Tetsuo Taki , Scott S. Suriano

In this paper, we investigate the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on tours $\TTT^d$. For $d=3$, we resolve the flexible part of Onsager-type conjecture for Els\"{a}sser energies of the ideal MHD equations. More precisely, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Changxing Miao , Yao Nie , Weikui Ye

In this note we consider the ideal compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a special two dimensional setting. We show that there exist particular initial data for which one obtains infinitely many entropy-conserving weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Christian Klingenberg , Simon Markfelder