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We address three two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics models: reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), Hazeltine's model, and the Charney--Hasegawa--Mima (CHM) equation. These models are derived to capture the basic features of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Klas Modin , Michael Roop

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

The metriplectic framework, which permits to formulate an algebraic structure for dissipative systems, is applied to visco-resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD), adapting what had already been done for non-ideal Hydrodynamics (HD). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Massimo Materassi , Emanuele Tassi

New large eddy simulation (LES) turbulence models for incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) derived from the variational multiscale (VMS) formulation for finite element simulations are introduced. The new models include the variational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 David Sondak , John N. Shadid , Assad A. Oberai , Roger P. Pawlowski , Eric C. Cyr , Tom M. Smith

We present a meshless method for magnetohydrodynamics by evolving the vector potential of magnetic fields. A novel scheme and numerical techniques are developed to restrict the divergence of magnetic field, based on the Meshless Finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Xiongbiao Tu , Qiao Wang , Haonan Zheng , Liang Gao

In this paper, we propose and analyze a temporally second-order accurate, fully discrete finite element method for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A modified Crank--Nicolson method is used to discretize the model and appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Cheng Wang , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

The characteristic decomposition for GRMHD in the comoving frame of the fluid has been known for a long time. However, it has not been known in the coordinate frame of the simulation and in terms of the conserved variables evolved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Saul A. Teukolsky

In this article we apply a discrete action principle for the Vlasov--Maxwell equations in a structure-preserving particle-field discretization framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Martin Campos Pinto , Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

We extend the recently introduced explicit divergence-free DG scheme for incompressible hydrodynamics [arXiv:1808.04669]. to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). A globally divergence-free finite element space is used for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Guosheng Fu

This paper examines the Kolmogorov type laws of conserved quantities in the electron and Hall magnetohydrodynamic fluids. Inspired by Eyink's longitudinal structure functions and recent progress in classical MHD equations, we derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Yanqing Wang , Yulin Ye , Otto Chkhetiani

We briefly review helicity dynamics, inverse and bi-directional cascades in fluid and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, with an emphasis on the latter. The energy of a turbulent system, an invariant in the non-dissipative case, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-13 A. Pouquet , D. Rosenberg , J. E. Stawarz , R. Marino

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

A port-Hamiltonian (pH) system formulation is a geometrical notion used to formulate conservation laws for various physical systems. The distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian formulation models infinite dimensional Hamiltonian dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-15 N. Kumar , J. J. W. van der Vegt , H. J. Zwart

This paper contributes with a new formal method of spatial discretization of a class of nonlinear distributed parameter systems that allow a port-Hamiltonian representation over a one dimensional manifold. A specific finite dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-23 B. C. van Huijgevoort , S. Weiland , H. J. Zwart

It is well known that helical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence exhibits an inverse transfer of magnetic energy from small to large scales, which is related to the approximate conservation of magnetic helicity. Recently, several…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Andres Armua , Arjun Berera , Jaime Calderon Figueroa

In this paper we develop the Lagrangian and multisymplectic structures of the Heisenberg magnet (HM) model which are then used as the basis for geometric discretizations of HM. Despite a topological obstruction to the existence of a global…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Karpeev , C. M. Schober

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving approximation of the non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equation using conforming finite elements for the spatial discretization and a problem-specific mixed explicit-implicit approach for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Aaron Brunk , Dennis Höhn , Mária Lukáčová-Medvidová

We present a domain decomposition strategy for developing structure-preserving finite element discretizations from data when exact governing equations are unknown. On subdomains, trainable Whitney form elements are used to identify…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Shuai Jiang , Jonas Actor , Scott Roberts , Nathaniel Trask

Magnetic helicity is conserved under ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and quasi-conserved even under a resistive process. The standard definition for magnetic helicity cannot be applied directly to an open magnetic field in a volume,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Kai E. Yang , Michael S. Wheatland , Stuart A. Gilchrist

We study the structure-preserving space discretization of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems defined with differential constitutive relations. Using the concept of Stokes-Lagrange structure to describe these relations, these are reduced to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Antoine Bendimerad-Hohl , Ghislain Haine , Laurent Lefèvre , Denis Matignon
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