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By using the quantum hydrodynamic and Maxwell equations, we derive nonlinear electron-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), Hall-MHD, and dust Hall-MHD equations for dense quantum magnetoplasmas. The nonlinear equations include the electromagnetic,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Shukla , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo

Filaments are special plasma phenomena embedded in the solar atmosphere, characterized by unique thermodynamic properties and magnetic structures. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are useful to investigate the eruption mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yihua Li , Yang Guo , Jinhan Guo , M. D. Ding , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We investigate the three-dimensional structure of the pulsar magnetosphere through time-dependent numerical simulations of a magnetic dipole that is set in rotation. We developed our own Eulerian finite difference time domain numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Ioannis Contopoulos

We develop a general description of how information propagates through a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system based on the method of characteristics and use that to formulate numerical boundary conditions (BCs) that are intrinsically consistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lucas A. Tarr , N. Dylan Kee , Mark G. Linton , Peter W. Schuck , James E. Leake

The Mancha3D code is a versatile tool for numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic processes in solar/stellar atmospheres. The code includes non-ideal physics derived from plasma partial ionization, a realistic equation of state and…

Based on the Newton's second law and the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic fields, we establish a new 3D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics(MHD) equations for the motion of plasma under the standard Coulomb gauge. By using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Ruikuan Liu , Jiayan Yang

In certain astrophysical systems the commonly employed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation breaks down. Here, we introduce novel explicit and implicit numerical schemes of ohmic resistivity terms in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-09 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Rahul Kannan , Philip Mocz , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We present results of three-dimensional, fully nonlinear MHD simulations of a large-scale magnetic field evolution in a barred galaxy. The model does not take into consideration the dynamo process. We find that the obtained magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Kulesza-Żydzik , K. Kulpa-Dybeł , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , G. Kowal , M. Soida

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

We present GAMERA-OP (Orthogonal-Plus), a three-dimensional finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver for orthogonal curvilinear geometries. The solver advances magnetic fields using constrained transport to preserve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Hongyang Luo , Binzheng Zhang , Jiaxing Tian , Jinshu Cai , Junjie Chen , Enhao Feng , Zhiqi Zheng , Sheng Xi , John G. Lyon

We present a method for simulating the evolution of HII regions driven by point sources of ionizing radiation in magnetohydrodynamic media, implemented in the three-dimensional Athena MHD code. We compare simulations using our algorithm to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mark R. Krumholz , James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

The JOREK extended magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) code is a widely used simulation code for studying the non-linear dynamics of large-scale instabilities in divertor tokamak plasmas. Due to the large scale-separation intrinsic to these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 I Holod , M Hoelzl , P S Verma , GTA Huijsmans , R Nies , JOREK Team

We describe a three-dimensional, Godunov-type numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) method designed for studying disk accretion to a rotating magnetized star in the general case where the star's rotation axis, its magnetic moment, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Koldoba , M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , R. V. E. Lovelace

Many problems at the forefront of theoretical astrophysics require the treatment of magnetized fluids in dynamical, strongly curved spacetimes. Such problems include the origin of gamma-ray bursts, magnetic braking of differential rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Branson C. Stephens

Single fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations have been studied through direct numerical simulations (DNS) using pseudo-spectral methods in two as well as three spatial dimensions. At Alfv\'en resonance, a reversible periodic exchange of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Rupak Mukherjee , Rajaraman Ganesh , Abhijit Sen

Steady plasma flows have been studied almost exclusively in systems with continuous symmetry or in open domains. In the absence of continuous symmetry, the lack of a conserved quantity makes the study of flows intrinsically challenging. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Harold Weitzner , Wrick Sengupta

The appearance of eruptive space plasma processes, e.g., in eruptive flares as observed in the solar atmosphere, is usually assumed to be caused by magnetic reconnection. The process of magnetic reconnection is often connected with singular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-07 Dieter Nickeler , Marian Karlicky , Miroslav Barta

We study the dynamics of a plasma of charged relativistic fermions at very high temperature $T\gg m$, where $m$ is the fermion mass, coupled to the electromagnetic field. In particular, we derive a magneto-hydrodynamical description of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Alexey Boyarsky , Jurg Frohlich , Oleg Ruchayskiy

In this paper, using Riemann-Lagrange geometrical methods, we construct a geometrical model on 1-jet spaces for the study of multi-time relativistic magnetized non-viscous plasma, characterized by a given energy-stress-momentum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Mircea Neagu