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I present a review of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetised plasma. The approach is phenomenological even where a more rigorous theory is available, so that a reader armed with paper, pencil and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Sridhar

A comprehensive study of a reduced version of Lust's equations, the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) model obtained from the two-fluid theory for electrons and ions with the enforcement of quasineutrality, is given. Starting from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Grasso , E. Tassi , H. M. Abdelhamid , P. J. Morrison

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).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics has reached a level of maturity that enables the study of a wide range of astrophysical problems. In this review, the numerical details of the modern SPMHD method are described. The three fundamental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Terrence S. Tricco

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a cross-field process relevant to many systems. A prerequisite for understanding these systems is to constrain the role of MHD turbulence, and in particular the energy exchange between kinetic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-10 R. Skalidis , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou

This manuscript concerns the stability conditions for the well-posedness of the two-dimensional plasma-vacuum interface problems for ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations, which describe the dynamics of conducting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Sicheng Liu , Tao Luo

MHD Turbulence is common in many space physics and astrophysics environments. We first discuss the properties of incompressible MHD turbulence. A well-conductive fluid amplifies initial magnetic fields in a process called small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrey Beresnyak , Alex Lazarian

The fully nonlinear (geometric and material) system of Field Dislocation Mechanics is reviewed to establish an exact analogy with the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (ideal MHD) under suitable physically simplifying circumstances.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Amit Acharya

Plasmas are highly nonlinear and multi-scale, motivating a hierarchy of models to understand and describe their behavior. However, there is a scarcity of plasma models of lower fidelity than magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), although these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Alan A. Kaptanoglu , Kyle D. Morgan , Chris J. Hansen , Steven L. Brunton

We study the one-dimensional, longitudinally boost-invariant motion of an ideal fluid with infinite conductivity in the presence of a transverse magnetic field, i.e., in the ideal transverse magnetohydrodynamical limit. In an extension of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Shi Pu , Victor Roy , Luciano Rezzolla , Dirk H. Rischke

We prove that smooth solutions of non-ideal (viscous and resistive) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations satisfy a stochastic law of flux conservation. This property involves an ensemble of surfaces obtained from a given, fixed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gregory L. Eyink

The paper reports the recent results on application and extension of the matrix formulation of lagrangian hydrodynamic equations. The matrix approach is based on the notion of continuous deformation of infinitesimal material elements and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Yakubovich , D. A. Zenkovich

We investigate the explicit convex relaxation of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. We provide a non-trivial lower estimate on the lamination hull and an upper estimate on the $\Lambda$-convex hull, the latter providing inequalities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Borbála Fazekas , József J. Kolumbán

We briefly review the recent developments in magnetohydrodynamics, which in particular deal with the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent plasmas. We especially emphasize (i) the necessity of renormalizing equations of motion in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Amir Jafari

The Eulerian system of dynamic equations for the ideal fluid is closed but incomplete. The complete system of dynamic equations arises after appending Lin constraints which describe motion of fluid particles in a given velocity field. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

Hamiltonian extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) is restricted to respect helical symmetry by reducing the Poisson bracket for 3D dynamics to a helically symmetric one, as an extension of the previous study for translationally symmetric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , P. J. Morrison

Symplectic and symmetry analysis for studying MHD superfluid flows is devised, a new version of the Z. Peradzynski helicity theorem based on differential - geometric and group-theoretical methods is derived. Having reanalyzed the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky , Nikolai N. Bogoliubov , Jolanta Golenia

We present a fully nonlinear and exact perturbation formulation of Einstein's gravity with a general fluid and the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) without imposing the slicing (temporal gauge) condition. Using this formulation, we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Hyerim Noh , Jai-chan Hwang , Martin Bucher

Hamiltonian variational principles provided, since 60s, the means of developing very successful wave theories for nonlinear free-surface flows, under the assumption of irrotationality. This success, in conjunction with the recognition that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-08 C. P. Mavroeidis , G. A. Athanassoulis

In the present work, we study the geometric structures of the Rotating Shallow Water Magnetohydrodynamics (RSW-MHD) equations through a Lie group invariant Euler-Poincar\'e variational principle. In this geometric framework, we derive new,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Darryl D. Holm , Ruiao Hu , Oliver D. Street