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In this manuscript we present a novel and efficient numerical method for the compressible viscous and resistive MHD equations for all Mach number regimes. The time-integration strategy is a semi-implicit splitting, combined with a hybrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Francesco Fambri , Eric Sonnendrücker

In this note we consider the ideal compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a special two dimensional setting. We show that there exist particular initial data for which one obtains infinitely many entropy-conserving weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Christian Klingenberg , Simon Markfelder

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

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

We revisit the issue of conservation of magnetic helicity and the Woltjer-Taylor relaxation theory in magnetohydrodynamics in the context of weak solutions. We introduce a relaxed system for the ideal MHD system, which decouples the effects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Daniel Faraco , Sauli Lindberg , László Székelyhidi

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

Motivated by a geometric method employed for the derivation of the Nambu bracket for ideal two-dimensional incompressible hydrodynamics, we reconstruct the reduced magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) model by a priori imposition of its conservation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

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

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

We propose a second-order accurate semi-implicit and well-balanced finite volume scheme for the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) including gravitational source terms. The scheme treats all terms associated with the acoustic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Claudius Birke , Walter Boscheri , Christian Klingenberg

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 prove the non-uniqueness of three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) system in $C([0,T];L^2(\mathbb{T}^3))$ for any initial data in $H^{\bar{\beta}}(\mathbb{T}^3)$~($\bar{\beta}>0$), by exhibiting that the total energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Changxing Miao , Weikui Ye

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

In this paper, a novel dual-field structure-preserving mixed finite element discretization for incompressible Hall MHD equations is introduced. The discretization satisfies pointwise conservation of mass, magnetic Gauss's law, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Yi Zhang

We present an extension to the special relativistic, ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations, designed to capture effects due to resistivity. The extension takes the simple form of an additional source term which, when implemented…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Alex James Wright , Ian Hawke

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

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner

A systematic study of energy conservation for extended magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models that include Hall terms and electron inertia is performed. It is observed that commonly used models do not conserve energy in the ideal limit, i.e.,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Keiji Kimura , P. J. Morrison

We propose a novel structure preserving discretization for viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics. We follow the recent line of work on discrete least action principle for fluid and plasma equation, incorporating the recent advances to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Valentin Carlier

We construct weak solutions to the ideal magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations which have finite total energy, and whose magnetic helicity is not a constant function of time. In view of Taylor's conjecture, this proves that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Rajendra Beekie , Tristan Buckmaster , Vlad Vicol

We present a divergence-free semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the simulation of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations which is stable for large time steps controlled by the local transport speed at all Mach and Alfv\'en…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Walter Boscheri , Andrea Thomann