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We have investigated the role of the equation of state in resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics using a newly developed resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code. A number of numerical tests in one-dimension and multi-dimensions…

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Motivated by the desire for highly accurate numerical computations of compact binary spacetimes in the era of gravitational wave astronomy, we reexamine hyperbolicity and well-posedness of the initial value problem for popular models of…

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This is a brief review of the recent developments in the theory of magnetic acceleration of relativistic jets. We attempt to explain the key results of this complex theory using basic physical arguments and simple calculations. The main…

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A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

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This paper is concerned with existence of solutions to the incompressible non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with large initial perturbations in there-dimensional (3D) periodic domains (in Lagrangian coordinates).…

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Hamilton's principle is extended to have compatible initial conditions to the strong form. To use a number of computational and theoretical benefits for dynamical systems, the mixed variational formulation is preferred in the systems other…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Jinkyu Kim

We present an extension of the multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics (MRxMHD) equilibrium model that includes pressure anisotropy and general plasma flows. This anisotropic extension to our previous isotropic model is motivated by Sun…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Graham R. Dennis , Stuart R. Hudson , Robert L. Dewar , Matthew J. Hole

In this article, we consider the 3D-rotating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system when the initial velocity and magnetic field both feature some 2D-part (i.-e. depending only on the horizontal space variables). We prove for weak and strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Frédéric Charve , Van-Sang Ngo

The ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations are, roughly speaking, a quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic system of PDEs, but not all the unknowns play the same role in this system. Indeed, in the regime of small magnetic fields, the equations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Dimitri Cobb , Francesco Fanelli

The resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations as usually defined in the quasineutral approximation refer to a system of 14 scalar equations in 14 scalar variables, hence are determined to be complete and soluble. These equations are a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Robert W. Johnson

We propose and analyze a new method for the unsteady incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations on convex domains with hybrid approximations of both vector-valued and scalar-valued fields. The proposed method is convection-semirobust,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou , Vito Patierno

Preserving the admissible set of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations is important not only for producing physically meaningful numerical solutions, but more importantly for achieving robust computations. In this paper, we develop…

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We study the incompressible limit of the compressible non-isentropic ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations with general initial data in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d=2,3$). We first establish the existence of classic solutions on a time…

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We present a new method for evolving the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (both Newtonian and relativistic) that is capable of maintaining a divergence-free magnetic field ($\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} = 0$) on adaptively refined, conformally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 P. Chris Fragile , Daniel Nemergut , Payden L. Shaw , Peter Anninos

The global regularity for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations (MHD) in three dimensions is a long standing open problem of fluid dynamics and PDE theory. The Navier-Stokes equations can be viewed as a special case of MHD with a…

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Recently, compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) has been elegantly formulated in terms of Lie derivatives. This paper exploits the geometrical properties of the Lie bracket to give new insights into the properties of compressible MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 Wayne Arter

The aim is to justify rigorously the so-called reduced magnetohydrodynamic model (abbreviated as RMHD), which is widely used in fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. Motivated by physics, the focus is on plasmas that are simultaneously…

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We are concerned with the uniform regularity estimates of solutions to the two dimensional compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with the no-slip boundary condition on velocity in the half plane. Under the…

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