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A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

This paper proposes and analyzes arbitrarily high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and finite volume methods which provably preserve the positivity of density and pressure for the ideal MHD on general meshes. Unified auxiliary theories are…

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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

Cosmic-ray transport in turbulent astrophysical environments remains a multifaceted problem and, despite decades of study, the impact of complex magnetic field geometry -- evident in simulations and observations -- has only recently…

Cosmic ray (CR) transport and acceleration is essential for many astrophysical problems, e.g., CMB foreground, ionization of molecular clouds and all high energy phenomena. Recent advances in MHD turbulence call for revisions in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

We consider the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a bounded domain with small volume and free moving surface boundary. We establish a priori estimate for solutions with minimal regularity assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

Including terrain in atmospheric models gives rise to mesh distortions near the lower boundary that can degrade accuracy and challenge the stability of transport schemes. Multidimensional transport schemes avoid splitting errors on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 James Shaw , Hilary Weller , John Methven , Terry Davies

Central schemes for conservation laws are Riemann solver free methods which are simple and easy to implement. In recent work for Euler equations [Kurganov & Xin, J. Sci. Comput., 96:56, 2023] their accuracy has been enhanced in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yu-Chen Cheng , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

Many astrophysical processes involving magnetic fields and quasi-stationary processes are well described when assuming the fluid as a perfect conductor. For these systems, the ideal-magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) description captures the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Oscar Reula , Luciano Rezzolla

We have written and tested a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, capable of evolving MHD fluids in dynamical spacetimes with adaptive-mesh refinement (AMR). Our code solves the Einstein-Maxwell-MHD system of coupled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

The paper describes a new upwind conservative numerical scheme for special relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with scalar resistivity. The magnetic field is kept approximately divergence free and the divergence of the electric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Komissarov

We present a numerical method for simulating rarefied gases that interact with moving boundaries and rigid bodies. The gas is described by the BGK equation in Lagrangian form and solved using an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Klaas Willems , Axel Klar , Giovanni Russo , Giovanni Samaey , Sudarshan Tiwari

In this paper, we address the 3D incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamic system (Hall-MHD). Our objective is to provide local and global well-posedness results for initial velocity $u_{0}$, magnetic field $B_{0}$ and the current…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Lucas C. F. Ferreira , Rafael P. da Silva

High-order moving-mesh methods can effectively reduce numerical diffusion, but their formal accuracy typically relies on the regularity of the mesh velocity. This dependency creates a fundamental conflict in the numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Chaoyi Cai , Qiqin Cheng , Di Wu , Jianxian Qiu

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the upper half-space with slip boundary conditions, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Jincheng Gao , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu , Zheng-an Yao

We derive the exact law for three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous compressible isothermal Hall magnetohydrodynamics (CHMHD) turbulence, without the assumption of isotropy. The Hall current is shown to introduce new flux and sources terms that…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nahuel Andrés , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui

In numerical models of thin astrophysical disks that use an Eulerian scheme, gas orbits supersonically through a fixed grid. As a result the time step is sharply limited by the Courant condition. Also, because the mean flow speed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bryan M. Johnson , Xiaoyue Guan , Charles F. Gammie

In the presence of a strong uniform magnetic field, we study the influence of space noncommutativity on the electromagnetic waves propagating through a quasi-static homogeneous plasma. In this treatment, we have adopted a physical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bourouaine , A. Benslama

In this paper a characteristics-based open boundary condition (CBC) is proposed for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system of equations. The algorithm is carefully designed and implemented in the context of a high-order flux reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xiaoliang Zhang , Chunlei Liang