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We have used the AMR hydrodynamic code, MG, to perform 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations with self-gravity of stellar feedback in a sheet-like molecular cloud formed through the action of the thermal instability. We simulate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 C. J. Wareing , J. M. Pittard , S. A. E. G. Falle

Slowly rotating magnetic massive stars develop "dynamical magnetospheres" (DM's), characterized by trapping of stellar wind outflow in closed magnetic loops, shock heating from collision of the upflow from opposite loop footpoints, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Stanley P. Owocki , Asif ud-Doula , Jon O. Sundqvist , Veronique Petit , David H. Cohen , Richard H. D. Townsend

Atomistic simulations of thermodynamic properties of magnetic materials rely on an accurate modelling of magnetic interactions and an efficient sampling of the high-dimensional spin space. Recent years have seen significant progress with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ning Wang , Thomas Hammerschmidt , Jutta Rogal , Ralf Drautz

With gravity, ionization, and radiation being considered, we perform 2.5D compressible resistive MHD simulations of chromospheric magnetic reconnection using the CIP-MOCCT scheme. The temperature distribution of the quiet-Sun atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 R. L. Jiang , C. Fang , P. F. Chen

We introduce the public version of the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical moving-mesh simulation code Arepo. This version contains a finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics algorithm on an unstructured, dynamic Voronoi tessellation coupled to a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rainer Weinberger , Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor

The magnetised solar wind modulates the Galactic cosmic ray flux in the heliosphere up to rigidities as high as 40 GeV. In this work, we present a new and straightforward extension of the popular, but limited force-field model, thus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-25 Marco Kuhlen , Philipp Mertsch

The anisotropy of magnetophydrodynamic turbulence is investigated by using solar wind data from the Helios 2 spacecraft. We investigate the behaviour of the complete high-order moment tensors of magnetic field increments and we compare the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Vincenzo Carbone , Roberto Bruno , Pierluigi Veltri

In this paper we propose a novel thermodynamically compatible finite volume scheme for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one and two space dimensions. As shown by Godunov in 1972, the MHD system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser

We propose two sets of initial conditions for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in which both the velocity and the magnetic fields have spatial symmetries that are preserved by the dynamical equations as the system evolves. When implemented…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Lee , M. E. Brachet , A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni , D. Rosenberg

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

We have used the AMR hydrodynamic code, MG, to perform 3D hydrodynamic simulations with self-gravity of stellar feedback in a spherical clumpy molecular cloud formed through the action of thermal instability. We simulate the interaction of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Christopher J. Wareing , Julian M. Pittard , Samuel A. E. G. Falle

We review recent insights into the dynamics of the solar convection zone obtained from global numerical simulations, focusing on two recent developments in particular. The first is quasi-cyclic magnetic activity in a long-duration dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mark S. Miesch , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

In ordinary turbulence research it has been a long standing tradition to solve the equations in spectral space giving the best possible accuracy. This is indeed a natural choice for incompressible problems with periodic boundaries, but it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Brandenburg , W. Dobler

We discuss recent advances made in modelling the complex magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun using our anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. We have conducted extensive 3--D simulations of compressible convection in rotating spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

Three-dimensional (3D) radiative magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations are the only way to model stellar atmospheres without any ad hoc parameterisations. Several 3D radiative MHD codes have achieved good quantitative agreement with…

In this work, we perform a statistical study of magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind at 1 au using permutation entropy and complexity analysis, and the investigation of the temporal variations of the Hurst exponents. Slow and fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Emilia Kilpua , Simon Good , Matti Ala-Lahti , Adnane Osmane , Venla Koikkalainen

Computational determination of the equilibrium state of heterogeneous phospholipid mem-branes is a significant challenge. We wish to explore the rich phase diagram of these multi-component systems. However, the diffusion and mixing times in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yevhen K. Cherniavskyi , Arman Fathizadeh , Ron Elber , D. Peter Tieleman

Investigating the apparent anomalies in lithium (Li) surface abundance observed in the Sun and young stellar globular clusters holds significant promise for advancing our understanding of the mechanisms influencing Li depletion. This study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 R. Caballero Navarro , A. García Hernández , J. C. Suárez

Aims. The main aim of this work is to study the evolution of the recently introduced relative helicity of the magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL) in a magnetohydrodynamics simulation. Methods. The simulation used is a typical flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 K. Moraitis , V. Archontis , G. Chouliaras

Radiative pressure exerted by line interactions is a prominent driver of outflows in astrophysical systems, being at work in the outflows emerging from hot stars or from the accretion discs of cataclysmic variables, massive young stars and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-29 U. M. Noebauer , S. A. Sim