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We construct and analyze a model of the relativistic steady-state magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) rarefaction that is induced when a planar symmetric flow (with one ignorable Cartesian coordinate) propagates under a steep drop of the external…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Konstantinos Sapountzis , Nektarios Vlahakis

A physically-based method to derive well-posed instances of the two-fluid transport equations for two-phase flow, from the Hamilton principle, is presented. The state of the two-fluid flow is represented by the superficial velocity and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Alejandro Clausse , Martin Lopez de Bertodano

Detailed studies of the intriguing field-dependent dynamics and transport properties of confined flowing ferrofluids require efficient mesoscopic simulation methods that account for fluctuating ferrohydrodynamics. Here, we propose such a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 Patrick Ilg

Recent progress regarding the noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD), a model with Hall drift and electron inertia, is summarized. The advantages of the Hamiltonian approach are invoked to study some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 George Miloshevich , Manasvi Lingam , Philip J. Morrison

Numerical evidence for a finite-time singularity in ideal 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is presented. The simulations start from two interlocking magnetic flux rings with no initial velocity. The magnetic curvature force causes the flux…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert M. Kerr , Axel Brandenburg

Based on the Newton's second law and the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic fields, we establish a new 3D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics(MHD) equations for the motion of plasma under the standard Coulomb gauge. By using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Ruikuan Liu , Jiayan Yang

A general method of solving the drift kinetic equation is developed for an axisymmetric magnetic field. Expanding a distribution function in general moments a set of ordinary differential equations are obtained. Successively expanding the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Jeong-Young Ji , Eric D. Held , J. Andrew Spencer , Yong-Su Na

We investigate the properties of natural two-dimensional (2D) magnetoplasma modes in laterally confined electron systems, such as 2D materials, quantum wells, or inversion layers in semiconductors, with an elliptic Fermi surface. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 D. A. Rodionov , I. V. Zagorodnev

Ideal MHD provides an accurate description of low-frequency Alfv\'en waves in fully ionized plasmas. However, higher frequency waves in many plasmas of the solar atmosphere cannot be correctly described by ideal MHD and a more accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

The long-time relaxation of ideal two dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence subject to the conservation of two infinite families of constants of motion---the magnetic and the "cross" topology invariants--is examined. The analysis of…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-30 M. B. Isichenko , A. V. Gruzinov

A multi-symplectic formulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is developed based on a Clebsch variable variational principle in which the Lagrangian consists of the kinetic minus the potential energy of the MHD fluid modified by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , J. F. McKenzie , G. P. Zank

Through the use of suitable variable transformations, the commonality of all extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) models is established. Remarkable correspondences between the Poisson brackets of inertialess Hall MHD and inertial MHD (which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 M. Lingam , P. J. Morrison , G. Miloshevich

This study shows the connection between three previously observed but seemingly unrelated phenomena in hydrodynamic (HD) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows, involving the emergence of fluctuations occurring on very long time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Dmitruk , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet , S. Servidio , W. H. Matthaeus

In this paper, we first establish a new fractional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) coupled flow and heat transfer model for a generalized second-grade fluid. This coupled model consists of a fractional momentum equation and a heat conduction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Xiaoqing Chi , Hui Zhang , Xiaoyun Jiang

Parker's formulation of isotopological plasma relaxation process in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is extended to Hall MHD. The torsion coefficient alpha in the Hall MHD Beltrami condition turns out now to be proportional to the "potential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 B. K. Shivamoggi

We provide a valid magnetohydrostatic equilibrium from the collapse of a 2D X-point in the presence of a finite plasma pressure, in which the current density is not simply concentrated in an infinitesimally thin, one-dimensional current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-13 Jorge Fuentes-Fernández , Clare E. Parnell , Alan W. Hood

When modeling astrophysical fluid flows, it is often appropriate to discard the canonical magnetohydrodynamic approximation thereby freeing the magnetic field to diffuse with respect to the bulk velocity field. As a consequence, however,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen O'Sullivan , Turlough P. Downes

A theoretical model of quasi-stationary, two-dimensional magnetic reconnection is presented in the framework of incompressible two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The results are compared with recent numerical simulations and experiment.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-11 Leonid M. Malyshkin

We present the optimal hydrodynamic model for rarefied gas flows relative to a given kinetic model by combining the recent theory of slow spectral closure with machine learning techniques. We learn generalized transport coefficients from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-09 Florian Kogelbauer , Candi Zheng , Ilya Karlin

This paper investigates the changes in spatial properties when magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves undergo resonant damping in the Alfv\'en continuum. The analysis is carried out for a 1D cylindrical pressure-less plasma with a straight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-18 M. Goossens , I. Arregui , R. Soler , T. Van Doorsselaere