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We introduce a novel structure-preserving method in order to approximate the compressible ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. This technique addresses the MHD equations using a non-divergence formulation, where the contributions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov , Ignacio Tomas

Magnetic fields play an important role in many astrophysical systems and a detailed understanding of their impact on the gas dynamics requires robust numerical simulations. Here we present a new method to evolve the ideal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

In this article, we provide stability estimates for the finite element discretization of a class of inverse parameter problems of the form $-\nabla\cdot(\mu S) = \g f$ in a domain $\Omega$ of $\R^d$. Here $\mu$ is the unknown parameter to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Elie Bretin , Pierre Millien , Laurent Seppecher

Magnetic relaxation drives plasma toward lower-energy equilibria under helicity constraints. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), helicity is locally conserved, while resistive theories such as Taylor relaxation preserve only global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Mingdong He , Kaibo Hu , Ganghui Zhang

In this manuscript we present a novel and efficient numerical method for the compressible viscous and resistive MHD equations for all Mach number regimes. The time-integration strategy is a semi-implicit splitting, combined with a hybrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Francesco Fambri , Eric Sonnendrücker

In this paper, we consider numerical approximation of an electrically conductive ferrofluid model, which consists of Navier-Stokes equations, magnetization equation, and magnetic induction equation. To solve this highly coupled, nonlinear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jialin Xie , Xiaodi Zhang

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are generally known to be difficult to solve numerically, due to their highly nonlinear structure and the strong coupling between the electromagnetic and hydrodynamic variables, especially for high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Fabian Laakmann

We develop arbitrarily high-order, stationarity-preserving stabilized finite element methods for multidimensional nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws on Cartesian grids. We aim at approximating all the steady states of the problem at hand,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Moussa Ziggaf , Davide Torlo , Mario Ricchiuto

In this paper, we design two classes of stabilized mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity on simplicial grids. In the first class of elements, we use $\boldsymbol{H}(\mathbf{div}, \Omega; \mathbb{S})$-$P_k$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Long Chen , Jun Hu , Xuehai Huang

A description is given for preserving ${\bmsy\nabla}\cdot{\vec B}=0$ in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code that employs the upwind, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme and the Strang-type operator splitting for multi-dimensionality. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dongsu Ryu , Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

In this paper, we present an entropy-stable (ES) discretization using a nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the ideal multi-ion magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We start by performing a continuous entropy analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Andrés M Rueda-Ramírez , Aleksey Sikstel , Gregor J Gassner

In this paper, we propose a conservative nonconforming virtual element method for the full stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics model. We leverage the virtual element satisfactory divergence-free property to ensure mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

A diffusion interface two-phase magnetohydrodynamic model has been used for matched densities in our previous work [1,2], which may limit the applications of the model. In this work, we derive a thermodynamically consistent diffuse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Ke Zhang

We derive error estimates of a finite element method for the approximation of solutions to a seven-fields formulation of a magnetohydrodynamics model, which preserves the energy of the system, and the magnetic and cross helicities on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 L. Beirao da Veiga , K. Hu , L. Mascotto

We construct a finite element discretization and time-stepping scheme for the incompressible Euler equations with variable density that exactly preserves total mass, total squared density, total energy, and pointwise incompressibility. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

We consider a prototypical parabolic SPDE with finite-dimensional multiplicative noise, which, subject to a nonnegative initial datum, has a unique nonnegative solution. Inspired by well-established techniques in the deterministic case, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ana Djurdjevac , Claude Le Bris , Endre Süli

This paper proposes a virtual element method (VEM) combined with a second-order implicit-explicit scheme based on the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) method for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We employ the BDF2…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

This paper focuses on the analysis of a free energy functional, that models a dilute suspension of magnetic nanoparticles in a two-dimensional nematic well. The {\it first part} of the article is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Ruma Rani Maity , Apala Majumdar , Neela Nataraj

In this paper, a novel dual-field structure-preserving mixed finite element discretization for incompressible Hall MHD equations is introduced. The discretization satisfies pointwise conservation of mass, magnetic Gauss's law, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Yi Zhang

We consider linear, hyperbolic systems of balance laws in several space dimensions. They possess non-trivial steady states, which result from the equilibrium between derivatives of the unknowns in different directions, and the sources.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo