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We present a novel method of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics scheme using the Geometric Density average force expression (GDSPH). GDSPH has recently been shown to reduce the leading order errors and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Robert Wissing , Sijing Shen

We describe a new scheme for evolving the equations of force-free electrodynamics, the vanishing-inertia limit of magnetohydrodynamics. This pseudospectral code uses global orthogonal basis function expansions to take accurate spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Kyle Parfrey , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Lam Hui

We establish the local existence and uniqueness of multi-dimensional contact discontinuities for the ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in Sobolev spaces, which are most typical interfacial waves for astrophysical plasmas and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Yanjin Wang , Zhouping Xin

Numerical solutions of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are reported for the interior of a rotating, perfectly-conducting, rigid spherical shell that is insulator-coated on the inside. A previously-reported spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , L. Turner

Context: Coronal magnetic null points have been implicated as possible locations for localised heating events in 2D models. We investigate this possibility about fully 3D null points. Aims: We investigate the nature of the fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-30 J. O. Thurgood , J. A. McLaughlin

We have performed numerical simulations of weakly and strongly magnetized relativistic jets embedded in a weakly and strongly magnetized stationary or mildly relativistic (0.5c) sheath using the RAISHIN code. In the numerical simulations a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Mizuno , P. Hardee , K. -I. Nishikawa

The stable propagation of jets in FRII sources is remarkable if one takes into account that large-scale jets are subjected to potentially highly disruptive three-dimensional (3D) Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Numerical simulations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Perucho , J. M. Marti , J. M. Cela , M. Hanasz , R. de la Cruz , F. Rubio

We describe a numerical scheme for studying time-dependent, multifluid, magnetohydrodynamic shock waves in weakly ionized interstellar clouds and cores. Shocks are modeled as propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field and consist of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Glenn E. Ciolek , Wayne G. Roberge

We present a new general relativistic (GR) code for hydrodynamic supernova simulations with neutrino transport in spherical and azimuthal symmetry (1D/2D). The code is a combination of the CoCoNuT hydro module, which is a Riemann-solver…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Mueller , H. -Th. Janka , H. Dimmelmeier

We construct a new Godunov type relativistic hydrodynamics code in Milne coordinates, using a Riemann solver based on the two-shock approximation which is stable under the existence of large shock waves. We check the correctness of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-18 Kazuhisa Okamoto , Yukinao Akamatsu , Chiho Nonaka

A new code for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is described. The code has been designed to be easily extensible for use with static and adaptive mesh refinement. It combines higher-order Godunov methods with the constrained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner , Peter Teuben , John F. Hawley , Jacob B. Simon

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to power various multi-wavelength emission signatures from neutron stars and black holes. Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) offers the simplest model of reconnection. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 B. Ripperda , M. P. Grehan , A. Moran , S. Selvi , L. Sironi , A. Philippov , A. Bransgrove , O. Porth

We propose a new Harten-Lax-van Leer discontinuities (HLLD) approximate Riemann solver to improve the stability of shocks and the accuracy of low-speed flows in multidimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. Stringent benchmark…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Takashi Minoshima , Takahiro Miyoshi

In this paper we study the problem of divergence-free numerical MHD and show that the work done so far still has four key unresolved issues. We resolve those issues in this paper. The problem of reconstructing MHD flow variables with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara

In this paper, we find various analytic (1+3)D solutions to relativistic ideal hydrodynamic equations based on embedding of known low-dimensional scaling solutions. We first study a class of flows with 2D Hubble Embedding, for which a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Shu Lin , Jinfeng Liao

In this work we present a proof of concept of CUDA-capable, resistive, multi-fluid models of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). Resistive and multi-fluid codes for simulating models of RMHD suffer from stiff source terms, so it is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Alex James Wright , Ian Hawke

This paper is concerned with a Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional (3D) nonhomogeneous incompressible heat conducting magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in the whole space. First of all, we establish a weak Serrin-type blowup…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Huanyuan Li

This paper investigates the non-resistive compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish the global existence and stability of classical solutions for initial data sufficiently close to a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhu

The characteristic decomposition for GRMHD is not known in a form useful for current numerical simulations. This prevents us from using the most accurate known computational methods, such as full-wave Riemann solvers. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Saul A. Teukolsky

Iharm3D is an open-source C code for simulating black hole accretion systems in arbitrary stationary spacetimes using ideal general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). It is an implementation of the HARM ("High Accuracy Relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Vedant Dhruv , Benjamin R. Ryan , Joshua C. Dolence , Sean M. Ressler , Charles F. Gammie