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In recent years, several different strategies have emerged for evolving the magnetic field in numerical MHD. Some of these methods can be classified as divergence-cleaning schemes, where one evolves the magnetic field components just like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara , Jongsoo Kim

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) dynamos emerge in many different astrophysical situations where turbulence is present, but the interaction between large-scale (LSD) and small-scale dynamos (SSD) is not fully understood. We performed a…

The smooth particle mesh Ewald (SPME) method is the standard method for computing the electrostatic interactions in the molecular simulations. In this work, the multiple staggered mesh Ewald (MSME) method is proposed to boost the accuracy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Han Wang , Xingyu Gao , Jun Fang

Numerical simulations of weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized relativistic jets embedded in a weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized stationary or weakly relativistic (v = c/2) sheath have been performed. A magnetic field parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yosuke Mizuno , Philip Hardee , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

Four different approximate approaches used to model the stressing of coronal magnetic fields due to an imposed photospheric motion are compared with each other and the results from a full time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 E. E. Goldstraw , A. W. Hood , P. K. Browning , P. J. Cargill

We construct magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) similarity rebound shocks joining `quasi-static' asymptotic solutions around the central degenerate core to explore an MHD model for the evolution of random magnetic field in supernova explosions. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yu-Qing Lou , Wei-Gang Wang

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysics on a wide variety of scales, ranging from the Sun and compact objects to galaxies and galaxy clusters. Here we discuss a novel implementation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruediger Pakmor , Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel

This article serves as a summary outlining the mathematical entropy analysis of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We select the ideal MHD equations as they are particularly useful for mathematically modeling a wide variety of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Dominik Derigs , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Andrew R. Winters

Knowledge of electric fields in the photosphere is required to calculate the electromagnetic energy flux through the photosphere and set up boundary conditions for data-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of solar eruptions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Andrey N. Afanasyev , Maria D. Kazachenko , Yuhong Fan , George H. Fisher , Benoit Tremblay

We present a new radiative transfer method (SPH-M1RT) that is coupled dynamically with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We implement it in the (task-based parallel) SWIFT galaxy simulation code but it can be straightforwardly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 T. K. Chan , Tom Theuns , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk

We describe a three-dimensional, Godunov-type numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) method designed for studying disk accretion to a rotating magnetized star in the general case where the star's rotation axis, its magnetic moment, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Koldoba , M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , R. V. E. Lovelace

Within the context of a viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model with anisotropic heat transport and cross-field mass diffusion, we introduce novel three-term representations for the magnetic field (background vacuum field, field line…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Nikita Nikulsin , Matthias Hoelzl , Alessandro Zocco , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Günter

Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (SDPD) is a mesoscopic method which allows to select the level of resolution at which a fluid is simulated. In this work, we study the consistency of the resulting thermodynamic properties as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-19 G. Faure , J. Roussel , J. -B. Maillet , G. Stoltz

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

In this chapter, we aim at presenting the basic techniques necessary to go beyond the widely accepted paradigm of second-order numerics. We specifically focus on finite-volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws occuring in fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

We present high resolution numerical simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. We concentrate on studies of spectra and anisotropy of velocity and density. We describe a technique of separating different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

This paper aims to numerically verify the large Reynolds number asymptotic theory of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flows proposed in the companion paper Deguchi (2019). To avoid any complexity associated with the chaotic nature of turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kengo Deguchi

In certain astrophysical systems the commonly employed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation breaks down. Here, we introduce novel explicit and implicit numerical schemes of ohmic resistivity terms in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-09 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Rahul Kannan , Philip Mocz , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We report a new finite-difference scheme for two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations, with and without rotation, in unstructured grids with quadrilateral cells. The new scheme is implemented within the code VULCAN/2D, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eli Livne , Luc Dessart , Adam Burrows , Casey A. Meakin

Recent spectro-polarimetric observations have provided detailed measurements of magnetic field, velocity and intensity during events of magnetic field intensification in the solar photosphere. We consider the temporal evolution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Danilovic , M. Schüssler , S. K. Solanki