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We show at the PDE level that the monolithic parabolic regularization of the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is compatible with all the generalized entropies, fulfills the minimum entropy principle, and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov

We describe a fully discrete mixed finite element method for the linearized rotating shallow water model, possibly with damping. While Crank-Nicolson time-stepping conserves energy in the absence of drag or forcing terms and is not subject…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Tate Kernell , Robert C. Kirby

This study derives geometric, variational discretizations of continuum theories arising in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), and the dynamics of complex fluids. A central role in these discretizations is played by the geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Evan S. Gawlik , Patrick Mullen , Dmitry Pavlov , Jerrold E. Marsden , Mathieu Desbrun

With the help of the generalized characteristics(GC) of the first order partial differential equations(PDE) we calculate the differential equation system of characteristics of the homogenous magneto hydrodynamical equations(MHD).

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Imre Ferenc Barna

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernovas, compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang

The Hamiltonian structures of the incompressible ideal fluid, including entropy advection, and magnetohydrodynamics are investigated by making use of Dirac's theory of constrained Hamiltonian systems. A Dirac bracket for these systems is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Cristel Chandre , Philip J. Morrison , Emanuele Tassi

The first paper of this series presents a discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on three-dimensional curvilinear unstructured hexahedral meshes. Compared to other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Marvin Bohm , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Dominik Derigs , Florian Hindenlang , Joachim Saur

Recent progress regarding the noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD), a model with Hall drift and electron inertia, is summarized. The advantages of the Hamiltonian approach are invoked to study some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 George Miloshevich , Manasvi Lingam , Philip J. Morrison

Invariant finite-difference schemes for the one-dimensional shallow water equations in the presence of a magnetic field for various bottom topographies are constructed. Based on the results of the group classification recently carried out…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 E. I. Kaptsov , V. A. Dorodnitsyn

In this article, we study the stability and large time behavior for an multi-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamical system with a velocity damping term, for small perturbations near a steady-state of magnetic field fulfilling the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Hui Fang , Pingping Gui , Yanping Zhou

A four-field reduced model of single helicity, incompressible MHD is derived in cylindrical geometry. An appropriate set of noncanonical variables is found, and the Hamiltonian, the Lie-Poisson bracket and the Casimir invariants are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 M. Furukawa , M. Hirota

Magnetic helicity is an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that encodes information on the topology of magnetic field lines. It has long been appreciated that magnetic topology is an important constraint for the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

This paper presents a mixed finite element framework for coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in heterogeneous porous media. The framework combines two types of locally conservative discretization schemes: (1) an enriched Galerkin…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-30 T. Kadeethum , S. Lee , F. Ballarin , J. Choo , H. M. Nick

We derive a relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) theory for a dilute electron-ion gas governed by the Boltzmann-Vlasov equation, using the method of moments. This yields an extended MHD framework beyond standard astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 Khwahish Kushwah , Gabriel S. Denicol

Helicity, a measure of the linkage of flux lines, has subtle and largely unknown effects upon dynamics. Both magnetic and hydrodynamic helicity are conserved for ideal systems and could suppress nonlinear dynamics. What actually happens is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg , Robert M. Kerr

This paper develops a charge-conservative mixed finite element method with optimal convergence rates for the stationary incompressible inductionless MHD equations on three-dimensional curved domains. The discretization employs the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Xue Jiang , Lei Li , Lingxiao Li

Ideal magnetohydrodynamics (IMHD) is strongly constrained by an infinite number of microscopic constraints expressing mass, entropy and magnetic flux conservation in each infinitesimal fluid element, the latter preventing magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Robert L. Dewar , Zensho Yoshida , Amitava Bhattacharjee , Stuart R. Hudson

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of incompressible viscous fluids with finite electrical conductivity describe the motion of viscous electrically conducting fluids in a magnetic field. In this paper, we find twelve families of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Bintao Cao

In this work, a simple fourth-order accurate finite volume semi-discrete scheme is introduced to solve astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems on Cartesian meshes. Hydrodynamic quantities like density, momentum and energy are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Prabal Singh Verma , Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Oliver Henze , Wolf-Christian Müller