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In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows, incompressibility is assumed for low Mach numbers. However, even at low Mach numbers, the Mach number influences flow and magnetic fields. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a method that can stably…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Hideki Yanaoka

Two setups with interlocked magnetic flux tubes are used to study the evolution of magnetic energy and helicity on magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) systems like plasmas. In one setup the initial helicity is zero while in the other it is finite.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-24 Simon Candelaresi , Fabio Del Sordo , Axel Brandenburg

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of magnetic helicity in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows focusing at scales larger than the forcing scale. Our results show a nonlocal inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, which occurs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-23 Moritz Linkmann , Vassilios Dallas

In this work, we design an entropy stable, finite volume approximation for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The method is novel as we design an affordable analytical expression of the numerical interface flux function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner

A recent paper arXiv:1312.4890 on multi-symplectic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using Clebsch variables in an Eulerian action principle with constraints is further extended. We relate a class of symplecticity conservation laws to a vorticity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 G. M. Webb , J. F. McKenzie , G. P. Zank

A numerical scheme is developed for systems of conservation laws on manifolds which arise in high speed aerodynamics and magneto-aerodynamics. The systems are presented in an arbitrary coordinate system on the manifold and involve source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Ian Holloway , Sivaguru S. Sritharan

In this paper we propose a novel thermodynamically compatible finite volume scheme for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one and two space dimensions. As shown by Godunov in 1972, the MHD system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser

We construct and analyze a model of the relativistic steady-state magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) rarefaction that is induced when a planar symmetric flow (with one ignorable Cartesian coordinate) propagates under a steep drop of the external…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Konstantinos Sapountzis , Nektarios Vlahakis

We introduce an efficient split finite element (FE) discretization of a y-independent (slice) model of the rotating shallow water equations. The study of this slice model provides insight towards developing schemes for the full 2D case.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Werner Bauer , Jörn Behrens , Colin J. Cotter

We describe a compatible finite element discretisation for the shallow water equations on the rotating sphere, concentrating on integrating consistent upwind stabilisation into the framework. Although the prognostic variables are velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 J. Shipton , T. H. Gibson , C. J. Cotter

In this contribution, we extend the hybridization framework for the Hodge Laplacian [Awanou et al., Hybridization and postprocessing in finite element exterior calculus, 2023] to port-Hamiltonian systems describing linear wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Yi Zhang , Stefano Stramigioli

Relative magnetic helicity is conserved by magneto-hydrodynamic evolution even in the presence of moderate resistivity. For that reason, it is often invoked as the most relevant constraint to the dynamical evolution of plasmas in complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Gherardo Valori , Pascal Démoulin , Etienne Pariat , Anthony Yeates , Kostas Moraitis , Luis Linan

The noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to construct variational principles for symmetric equilibrium configurations of magnetized plasma including flow. In particular, helical symmetry is considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Tommaso Andreussi , Philip J. Morrison , Francesco Pegoraro

We consider the design of structure-preserving discretization methods for the solution of systems of boundary controlled Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) thanks to the port-Hamiltonian formalism. We first provide a novel general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Andrea Brugnoli , Ghislain Haine , Anass Serhani , Xavier Vasseur

We study conservation properties of Galerkin methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, without the divergence constraint strongly enforced. In typical discretizations such as the mixed finite element method, the conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Sergey Charnyi , Timo Heister , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Leo G. Rebholz

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) were introduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In this paper we introduce simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the relevant equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Asher Yahalom

Methods for discretizing port-Hamiltonian systems are of interest both for simulation and control purposes. Despite the large literature on mixed finite elements, no rigorous analysis of the connections between mixed elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

This paper develops a helicity-aware physics-informed neural network framework for incompressible non-Newtonian flow in rotational form. In addition to the energy law and the incompressibility constraint, helicity is a fundamental geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-10 Zheng Lu , Young Ju Lee , Jiwei Jia , Ziqian Li

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