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We describe a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) constrained energy functional for equilibrium calculations that combines the topological constraints of ideal MHD with elements of Taylor relaxation. Extremizing states allow for partially chaotic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , M. J. Hole , M. McGann

We propose and analyze a class of finite element methods for the time-dependent incompressible magnetohydrodynamics system based on $H(\mathrm{curl})$-conforming discretizations for both the velocity and the magnetic field. This choice is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Sergio Gómez , Ilaria Perugia , Enrico Zampa

Numerical solutions of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are reported for the interior of a rotating, perfectly-conducting, rigid spherical shell that is insulator-coated on the inside. A previously-reported spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , L. Turner

The vast majority of mesons can be understood as quark-antiquark states. Yet, various other possibilities exists: glueballs (bound-state of gluons), hybrids (quark-antiquark plus gluon), and four-quark states (either as diquark-antidiquark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Francesco Giacosa

Following the previous work of Ferretti and Yang on the role of magnetic fields in the theory of conformal turbulence, we show that non-unitary minimal model solutions to 2-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) obtained by dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Omduth Coceal , Steven Thomas

The applicability of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) and its generalization to two-fluid models (including the Hall and inertial effects) is systematically investigated by using the method of dominant balance in the two-fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Shuntaro Yoshino , Makoto Hirota , Yuji Hattori

Motivated by the desire to construct meson-meson operators of definite relative momentum in order to study resonances in lattice QCD, we present a set of single-meson interpolating fields at non-zero momentum that respect the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-01-27 Christopher E. Thomas , Robert G. Edwards , Jozef J. Dudek

This paper establishes a regularity theory for the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with external forces through scaling analysis. Inspired by the existing methodology, we utilize linearized approximations and the monotonicity property…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Mengyao Ding , Wenwen Huo , Chao Zhang

A necessary and sufficient set of conditions for a quasisymmetric magnetic field in the form of constraint equations is derived from first principles. Without any assumption regarding the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium of the plasma,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Eduardo Rodriguez , Per Helander , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest description of magnetic plasma turbulence in a variety of astrophysical and laboratory systems. MHD turbulence with nonzero cross helicity is often called imbalanced, as it implies that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean Carlos Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev

Isotropic homogeneous hydromagnetic turbulence is studied using numerical simulations at resolutions of up to 1024^3 meshpoints. It is argued that, in contrast to the kinematic regime, the nonlinear regime is characterized by a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , N. E. L. Haugen , W. Dobler

We address the problem of controllability of the MHD system in a rectangular domain with a control prescribed on the side boundary. We identify a necessary and sufficient condition on the data to be null controllable, i.e., can be driven to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Igor Kukavica , Matthew Novack , Vlad Vicol

We discuss the procedure for the exact solution of the Riemann problem in special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We consider both initial states leading to a set of only three waves analogous to the ones in relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Giacomazzo , L. Rezzolla

In this paper, we prove the existence of relative equilibria with holes for quasi-geostrophic shallow-water equations. More precisely, using bifurcation techniques, we establish for any m large enough the existence of two branches of m-fold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Emeric Roulley

We address the minimization of the Canham-Helfrich functional in presence of multiple phases. The problem is inspired by the modelization of heterogeneous biological membranes, which may feature variable bending rigidities and spontaneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Katharina Brazda , Luca Lussardi , Ulisse Stefanelli

We prove the existence of global in time, finite energy, weak solutions to a quantum magnetohydrodynamic system (QMHD) with large data, modeling a charged quantum fluid interacting with a self-generated electromagnetic field. The analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Raffaele Scandone

Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) properties near a two-dimensional (2D) X-type magnetic neutral line in the steady state are considered via heuristic and rigorous developments. Upon considering the steady-state as the asymptotic limit of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Helicity, a measure of the breakage of reflectional symmetry representing the topology of turbulent flows, contributes in a crucial way to their dynamics and to their fundamental statistical properties. We review several of their main…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Annick Pouquet , Nobumitsu Yokoi

Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) with electron inertia is considered. A much wider class of equilibrium solutions and the concomitant self-organization aspects are discussed. The force-free field state B - J is shown to be a consequence of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-09-10 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

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