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Compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is formulated in terms of the time evolution of potential vorticity and magnetic flux per unit mass using a compact Lie bracket notation. It is demonstrated that this simplifies analytic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Wayne Arter

The first paper of this series presents a discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on three-dimensional curvilinear unstructured hexahedral meshes. Compared to other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Marvin Bohm , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Dominik Derigs , Florian Hindenlang , Joachim Saur

Based on a rigorous thermodynamic framework, this work develops a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic model grounded in the Helmholtz free energy formalism. The model maintains full thermodynamic consistency by simultaneously satisfying energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ting Xiao , Qiaolin He

The metriplectic framework, which permits to formulate an algebraic structure for dissipative systems, is applied to visco-resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD), adapting what had already been done for non-ideal Hydrodynamics (HD). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Massimo Materassi , Emanuele Tassi

We present an extension to the special relativistic, ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations, designed to capture effects due to resistivity. The extension takes the simple form of an additional source term which, when implemented…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Alex James Wright , Ian Hawke

We present a new multi-dimensional, robust, and cell-centered finite-volume scheme for the ideal MHD equations. This scheme relies on relaxation and splitting techniques and can be easily used at high order. A fully conservative version is…

Extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) is a fluid plasma model generalizing ideal MHD by taking into account the impact of Hall drift effects and the influence of electron inertial effects. XMHD has a Hamiltonian structure which has received…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Christophe Cheverry , Nicolas Besse

Many astrophysical processes involving magnetic fields and quasi-stationary processes are well described when assuming the fluid as a perfect conductor. For these systems, the ideal-magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) description captures the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-09 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Oscar Reula , Luciano Rezzolla

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a continuum level model for conducting fluids subject to external magnetic fields, e.g. plasmas and liquid metals. The efficient and robust solution of the MHD system poses many challenges due to it's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-18 J. H. Chaudhry , A. E. Rappaport , J. N. Shadid

The full compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations can be derived formally from the complete electromagnetic fluid system in some sense as the dielectric constant tends to zero. This process is usually referred as magnetohydrodynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Song Jiang , Fucai Li

In various astrophysical contexts, we analyze self-similar behaviours of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) evolution of a quasi-spherical polytropic magnetized gas under self-gravity with the specific entropy conserved along streamlines. In…

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

We propose two sets of initial conditions for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in which both the velocity and the magnetic fields have spatial symmetries that are preserved by the dynamical equations as the system evolves. When implemented…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Lee , M. E. Brachet , A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni , D. Rosenberg

This paper develops entropy stable (ES) adaptive moving mesh schemes for the 2D and 3D special relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD) equations. They are built on the ES finite volume approximation of the RHD equations in curvilinear coordinates,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Junming Duan , Huazhong Tang

A high-fidelity finite volume scheme based on the BVD (boundary variation diminishing) concept is proposed in this study to solve the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. A hybrid spatial reconstruction profile, consisting of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-24 Pan Chenxi , Song Sheng , Chen Chungang , Li Xingliang , Shen Xueshun , Xiao Feng

Analyzing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows requires accurate predictions of the Lorentz force and energy conversion. Total energy, cross-helicity, and magnetic helicity can be used to investigate energy conservation properties in inviscid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Hideki Yanaoka

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

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

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

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

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

We present novel numerical schemes for ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations aimed at enhancing stability against numerical shock instability and improving the accuracy of low-speed flows in multidimensions. Stringent benchmark tests…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-22 Takashi Minoshima