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Resonant scattering of fast particles off low frequency plasma waves is a major process determining transport characteristics of energetic particles in the heliosphere and contributing to their acceleration. Usually, only Alfv\'en waves are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Cedric Schreiner , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier

We derive a generalized linear dispersion relation of waves in a strongly magnetized, compressible, homogeneous and isotropic quasineutral plasma. Starting from a two fluid model, describing distinguishable electron and ion fluids, we…

Space Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Dastgeer Shaikh , B. Dasgupta , P. K. Shukla

The problem of consistency of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has demanded considerable attention in the past few years due to the ever increasing number of applications of the method in many areas of science and engineering. A loss…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti , Jaime Klapp , Otto Rendón , Carlos A. Vargas , Franklin Peña-Polo

In this paper, we introduce the first implementation of magnetic field-aligned hyperbolic diffusion for standard smoothed particle (magneto-)hydrodynamics (SPH), and its linear-exact gradient extension (LESPH). Hyperbolic diffusion differs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nicholas Owens , James Wadsley , Robert Wissing , Ben Keller

The numerical convergence of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) can be severely restricted by random force errors induced by particle disorder, especially in shear flows, which are ubiquitous in astrophysics. The increase in the number…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Walter Dehnen , Hossam Aly

We present a new formulation of the equations of motion used in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The spatial resolution in SPH is determined by the smoothing length, $h$, and it has become common practice for each particle to be given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Richard P. Nelson , John C. B. Papaloizou

We introduce a simple and efficient algorithm for diffusion in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and apply it to the problem of chemical mixing. Based on the concept of turbulent diffusion, we link the diffusivity of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas H. Greif , Simon C. O. Glover , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. The choice of variable to smooth in SPH has been the topic of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower

Turbulence in the magnetized plasma is well understood to be the consequence of wave interactions. When the Hall effect is added to the minimum magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the MHD waves become dispersive and different nonlinear interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Erik C. Hansen , Prerana Sharma , Swadesh M. Mahajan

This study focuses on solving the numerical challenges of imposing absorbing boundary conditions for dynamic simulations in the material point method (MPM). To attenuate elastic waves leaving the computational domain, the current work…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Jun Kurima , Bodhinanda Chandra , Kenichi Soga

Solar prominences are partially ionised plasmas displaying flows and oscillations. These oscillations show time and spatial damping and, commonly, have been explained in terms of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. We study the spatial damping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Carbonell , P. Forteza , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

In this paper, phase correction and amplitude compensation are introduced to a previously developed mixed domain method (MDM), which is only accurate for modeling wave propagation in weakly heterogeneous media. Multiple reflections are also…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Juanjuan Gu , Yun Jing

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

We present a numerical approach to efficiently calculate spin-wave dispersions and spatial mode profiles in magnetic waveguides of arbitrarily shaped cross section with any non-collinear equilibrium magnetization which is translationally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lukas Körber , Gwendolyn Quasebarth , Andreas Otto , Attila Kákay

I present a review of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), with the aim of providing a mathematically rigorous, clear derivation of the algorithms from first principles. The method of discretising a continuous field into particles using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter J. Cossins

We present a linear mode analysis of the relativistic MHD equations in the presence of finite electrical conductivity. Starting from the fully relativistic covariant formulation, we derive the dispersion relation in the limit of small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Mignone , G. Mattia , G. Bodo

Many experiments and devices in physics use static magnetic fields to guide charged particles from a source onto a detector, and we ask the innocent question: What is the distribution of particle intensity over the detector surface? One…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-23 Dirk Dubbers

Several Lagrangian methodologies have been proposed in recent years to simulate advection-dispersion of solutes in fluids as a mass exchange between numerical particles carrying the fluid. In this paper, we unify these methodologies,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Guillem Sole-Mari , Michael J. Schmidt , Stephen D. Pankavich , David A. Benson

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions in the picture of particle acceleration. We make use of the recently established scaling of slow and fast MHD modes in strong and weak MHD…

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

This paper presents applications of weighted meshless scheme for conservation laws to the Euler equations and the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. The divergence constraint of the latter is maintained to the truncation error by a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Evghenii Gaburov , Keigo Nitadori