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We propose a novel method for the direct numerical simulation of interfacial flows involving large density contrasts, using a Volume-of-Fluid method. We employ the conservative formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Sagar Pal , Daniel Fuster , Stéphane Zaleski

Collisionless shocks are frequently analyzed using the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) formalism, even though MHD assumes a small mean free path. Yet, isotropy of pressure, fruit of binary collisions and assumed in MHD, may not apply in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Antoine Bret , Colby C. Haggerty , Ramesh Narayan

We present new 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a supernova-driven, stratified interstellar medium. These simulations were run using the Waagan (2009) positivity preserving scheme for ideal MHD implemented in the Flash code. The…

We develop a structure-preserving computational framework for optimal mixing control in incompressible flows. Our approach exactly conserves the continuous system's key invariants (mass and $L^2$-energy), while also maintaining discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Weiwei Hu , Ziqian Li , Yubiao Zhang , Enrique Zuazua

We develop a numerical scheme for solving a fully special relativistic resistive radiation magnetohydrodynamics. Our code guarantees conservations of total mass, momentum and energy. Radiation energy density and radiation flux are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Ken Ohsuga

A grid-free variant of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is proposed, named the Isotropic DSMC (I-DSMC) method, that is suitable for simulating dense fluid flows at molecular scales. The I-DSMC algorithm eliminates all grid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Donev , B. J. Alder , A. L. Garcia

We introduce new second-order adaptive low-dissipation central-upwind (LDCU) schemes for the one- and two-dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The new adaptive LDCU schemes employ the LDCU numerical fluxes (recently proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Shaoshuai Chu , Alexander Kurganov

We present a constrained transport (CT) algorithm for solving the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on a moving mesh, which maintains the divergence-free condition on the magnetic field to machine-precision. Our CT scheme uses an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Lars Hernquist

Multiphase flows with high density ratios, such as water and air flows, have recently been simulated using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. This approach corresponds to solving the phase field equations, such as the Cahn-Hilliard and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Otomo , C. Sun , T. Inamuro , W. Li , M. Dressler , H. Chen , Y. Li , R. Zhang

Our goal was to develop a robust algorithm for numerical simulation of one-dimensional shallow-water flow in a complex multiply-connected channel network with arbitrary geometry and variable topography. We apply a central-upwind scheme with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Sergii Kivva , Mark Zheleznyak , Alexander Pilipenko , Vasyl Yoschenko

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel efficient high-order finite volume method for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). As a distinctive feature, the method simultaneously preserves a discretely divergence-free (DDF) constraint on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Shengrong Ding , Kailiang Wu

In this work, we present a positivity-preserving adaptive filtering approach for discontinuous spectral element approximations of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. This approach combines the entropy filtering method (Dzanic and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Tarik Dzanic , Freddie D. Witherden

High-order implicit shock tracking is a new class of numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features. These methods align elements of the computational mesh with non-smooth features to represent them…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Tianci Huang , Matthew J. Zahr

Stellar convection poses two main gargantuan challenges for astrophysical fluid solvers: low-Mach number flows and minuscule perturbations over steeply stratified hydrostatic equilibria. Most methods exhibit excessive numerical diffusion…

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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

A low diffusion version of the HLL-CPS scheme for resolving the shear layers and the flow features at low Mach numbers is presented here. The low diffusion HLL-CPS scheme is obtained by reconstructing the velocities at the cell interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-21 A. Gogoi , J. C. Mandal

We present an extension of the Piecewise Parabolic Method to special relativistic fluid dynamics in multidimensions. The scheme is conservative, dimensionally unsplit, and suitable for a general equation of state. Temporal evolution is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mignone , T. Plewa , G. Bodo

We present an implicit relaxation scheme for the simulation of compressible flows in all Mach number regimes based on a Jin Xin relaxation approach. The main features of the proposed scheme lie in its simplicity and effectiveness. Thanks to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-12 Andrea Thomann , Angelo Iollo , Gabriella Puppo

This paper focuses on an optimal error analysis of a fully discrete finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard--magnetohydrodynamic (CH-MHD) system. The method use the standard inf-sup stable Taylor--Hood/MINI elements to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Haiyan Su , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Ke Zhang

MFC is an open-source tool for solving multi-component, multi-phase, and bubbly compressible flows. It is capable of efficiently solving a wide range of flows, including droplet atomization, shock-bubble interaction, and gas bubble…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Spencer H. Bryngelson , Kevin Schmidmayer , Vedran Coralic , Jomela C. Meng , Kazuki Maeda , Tim Colonius