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Analyzing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows requires accurate predictions of the Lorentz force and energy conversion. Total energy, cross-helicity, and magnetic helicity can be used to investigate energy conservation properties in inviscid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Hideki Yanaoka

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

Recently, an extended version of magnetohydrodynamics that incorporates electron inertia, dubbed inertial magnetohydrodynamics, has been proposed. This model features a noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation with a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Michael Kraus

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

In this work, we develop a new compatible finite element formulation of the thermal shallow water equations that conserves energy and mathematical entropies given by buoyancy-related quadratic tracer variances. Our approach relies on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-18 Tamara A. Tambyah , David Lee , Santiago Badia

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

We present a set of linear, second order, unconditionally energy stable schemes for the Allen-Cahn equation with nonlocal constraints that preserves the total volume of each phase in a binary material system. The energy quadratization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Xiaobo Jing , Jun Li , Xueping Zhao , Qi Wang

The equations of Lagrangian gas dynamics fall into the larger class of overdetermined hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (HTC) systems of partial differential equations. They satisfy an entropy inequality (second principle of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser , Pierre-Henri Maire

We present an energy conserving space discretisation of the rotating shallow water equations using compatible finite elements. It is based on an energy and enstrophy conserving Hamiltonian formulation as described in McRae and Cotter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Golo Wimmer , Colin Cotter , Werner Bauer

We present and compare third- as well as fifth-order accurate finite difference schemes for the numerical solution of the compressible ideal MHD equations in multiple spatial dimensions. The selected methods lean on four different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mignone , P. Tzeferacos , G. Bodo

In this chapter, we aim at presenting the basic techniques necessary to go beyond the widely accepted paradigm of second-order numerics. We specifically focus on finite-volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws occuring in fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

We show that the one-dimensional (1D) two-fluid model (TFM) for stratified flow in channels and pipes (in its incompressible, isothermal form) satisfies an energy conservation equation, which arises naturally from the mass and momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 J. F. H. Buist , B. Sanderse , S. Dubinkina , R. A. W. M. Henkes , C. W. Oosterlee

We report a new finite-difference scheme for two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations, with and without rotation, in unstructured grids with quadrilateral cells. The new scheme is implemented within the code VULCAN/2D, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eli Livne , Luc Dessart , Adam Burrows , Casey A. Meakin

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 ideal MHD equations are a central model in astrophysics, and their solution relies upon stable numerical schemes. We present an implementation of a new method, which possesses excellent stability properties. Numerical tests demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Knut Waagan , Christoph Federrath , Christian Klingenberg

We propose a new numerical approach to compute nonclassical solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws. The class of finite difference schemes presented here is fully conservative and keep nonclassical shock waves as sharp interfaces,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Benjamin Boutin , Christophe Chalons , Frederic Lagoutiere , Philippe G. LeFloch

The rotation-two-component Camassa--Holm system, which possesses strongly nonlinear coupled terms and high-order differential terms, tends to have continuous nonsmooth solitary wave solutions, such as peakons, stumpons, composite waves and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Tong Yan , Jiwei Zhang , Qifeng Zhang

We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

In this paper, we establish the non-uniqueness of solutions to the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations in any dimension greater than three by proving the existence of infinitely many compactly supported weak solutions. In particular, these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Changxing Miao , Zhiwen Zhao