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We construct weak solutions to the ideal magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations which have finite total energy, and whose magnetic helicity is not a constant function of time. In view of Taylor's conjecture, this proves that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Rajendra Beekie , Tristan Buckmaster , Vlad Vicol

We show that relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be recast as a novel theory of superfluidity. This new theory formulates MHD just in terms of conservation equations, including dissipative effects, by introducing appropriate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 Jay Armas , Akash Jain

We present a new variational formulation for Viscous and resistive Hall Magnetohydrodynamic. We first find a variational principle for ideal HMHD by applying the physical assumptions leading to HMHD at the lagrangian level, and then we add…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to power various multi-wavelength emission signatures from neutron stars and black holes. Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) offers the simplest model of reconnection. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 B. Ripperda , M. P. Grehan , A. Moran , S. Selvi , L. Sironi , A. Philippov , A. Bransgrove , O. Porth

A version of extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that incorporates electron inertia is obtained by constructing an action principle. Unlike MHD which freezes in magnetic flux, the present theory freezes in an alternative flux related to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 M. Lingam , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi

Motivated by a geometric method employed for the derivation of the Nambu bracket for ideal two-dimensional incompressible hydrodynamics, we reconstruct the reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) model by a priori imposition of its conservation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

This article proposes a review of the analysis of the system of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). First, we give an account of the modelling asumptions. Then, the results of existence of weak solutions, using the notion of renormalized solutions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Xavier Blanc , Bernard Ducomet

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

A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

Relativistic macroscopic plasma dynamics can be described by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In many high-energy astrophysical settings, such as the interior dynamics of magnetized stars, the ideal GRMHD approximation, in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Sara Azizi , Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter

We propose a one-dimensional (1D) model for the three-dimensional(3D) incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics. We establish a regularity criterion of the Beale-Kato-Majda type for this 1D model. Without the stretching effect, the model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Mimi Dai , Bhakti Vyas , Xiangxiong Zhang

We have written and tested a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, capable of evolving MHD fluids in dynamical spacetimes with adaptive-mesh refinement (AMR). Our code solves the Einstein-Maxwell-MHD system of coupled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

This paper considers magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and some of its applications from the perspective of differential geometry, considering the dynamics of an ideal fluid flow and magnetic field on a general three-dimensional manifold, equipped…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

We prove the local well-posedness of the 3D free-boundary incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with surface tension, which describe the motion of a perfect conducting fluid in an electromagnetic field. We adapt the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Xumin Gu , Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

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

This paper investigates the non-resistive compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish the global existence and stability of classical solutions for initial data sufficiently close to a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhu

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernovas, compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang

We present a finite-volume, genuinely 4th-order accurate numerical method for solving the equations of resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (Res-RMHD) in Cartesian coordinates. In our formulation, the magnetic field is evolved in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Andrea Mignone , Vittoria Berta , Marco Rossazza , Matteo Bugli , Giancarlo Mattia , Luca Del Zanna , Lorenzo Pareschi

Ideal magnetohydrodynamics (IMHD) is strongly constrained by an infinite number of microscopic constraints expressing mass, entropy and magnetic flux conservation in each infinitesimal fluid element, the latter preventing magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Robert L. Dewar , Zensho Yoshida , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Stuart R. Hudson

The exact law for fully developed homogeneous compressible magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD) turbulence is derived. For an isothermal plasma, without the assumption of isotropy, the exact law is expressed as a function of the plasma velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Nahuel Andrés , Fouad Sahraoui