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Smooth vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be decomposed into the sum of a gradient vector field and divergence-free (solenoidal) vector field under suitable hypotheses. This is called the Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition (HHD), which has been…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Tomoharu Suda

We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

In this work we numerically test a model of Hall magnetohydrodynamics in the presence of a strong mean magnetic field, the reduced Hall MHD model (RHMHD) derived by Gomez et al., with the addition of weak compressible effects. The main…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 L. N. Martin , P. Dmitruk , D. O. Gomez

This paper presents an overview and introduction to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics in theory and in practice. Firstly, we give a basic grounding in the fundamentals of SPH, showing how the equations of motion and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-22 Daniel J. Price

In this article, discrete variants of several results from vector calculus are studied for classical finite difference summation by parts operators in two and three space dimensions. It is shown that existence theorems for scalar/vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Hendrik Ranocha , Katharina Ostaszewski , Philip Heinisch

We examine hyperbolicity of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with divergence cleaning, a flux-balance law form of the model not covered by our earlier analysis. The calculations rely again on a dual-frame approach, which allows us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-04 David Hilditch , Andreas Schoepe

We present a new, completely Lagrangian magnetohydrodynamics code that is based on the SPH method. The equations of self-gravitating hydrodynamics are derived self-consistently from a Lagrangian and account for variable smoothing length…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Rosswog , D. Price

Many interesting terrestrial and astrophysical scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Even though the Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to handle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 Domingo García-Senz , Robert Wissing , Rubén M. Cabezón

Orbital advection is a significant bottleneck in disk simulations, and a particularly tricky one when used in connection with magnetohydrodynamics. We have developed an orbital advection algorithm suitable for the induction equation with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 Wladimir Lyra , Colin P. McNally , Tobias Heinemann , Frederic Masset

In partially ionised plasmas, the magnetic field can become decoupled from the neutral gas and diffuse through it in a process known as ambipolar diffusion. Although ambipolar diffusion has been implemented in several grid codes, we here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Ben A. Ayliffe

We give an integral expression for the vector potential of a time-independent, steady azimuthal current density. Our derivation is substantially simpler and somewhat more general than others given in the literature. As an illustration, we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Antonio O. Bouzas

We introduce Gradient Particle Magnetohydrodynamics (GPM), a new Lagrangian method for magnetohydrodynamics based on gradients corrected for the locally disordered particle distribution. The development of a numerical code for MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jason L. Maron , Gregory G. Howes

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

Vector and scalar potential formulation is valid from quantum theory to classical electromagnetics. The rapid development in quantum optics calls for electromagnetic solutions that straddle quantum physics as well as classical physics. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Weng Cho Chew

Smooth model potentials with parameters selected to reproduce the spectrum of one-electron atoms are used to approximate the singular Coulomb potential. Even when the potentials do not mimic the Coulomb singularity, much of the spectrum is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Cristina E. González-Espinoza , Paul. W Ayers , Jacek Karwowski , Andreas Savin

We have carried out simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability for compressible fluids in $2\frac{1}{2}$-dimensions, extending our previous work by Frank et al (1996) and Jones…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hyunju Jeong , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

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

Superconducting quantum processors are a compelling platform for analog quantum simulation due to the precision control, fast operation, and site-resolved readout inherent to the hardware. Arrays of coupled superconducting qubits natively…

We present an updated constrained hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning algorithm for smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) that remains conservative with wave cleaning speeds which vary in space and time. This is accomplished…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

We present a thorough numerical study on the MRI using the smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics method (SPMHD) with the geometric density average force expression (GDSPH). We perform shearing box simulations with different initial setups…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 R. Wissing , S. Shen , J. Wadsley , T. Quinn