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This paper aims to establish the global well-posedness of the free boundary problem for the incompressible viscous resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. Under the framework of Lagrangian coordinates, a unique global solution exists…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Wei Zhang , Jie Fu , Chengchun Hao , Siqi Yang

An overview of some recent progress on magnetohydrodynamic stability and current sheet formation in a line-tied system is given. Key results on the linear stability of the ideal internal kink mode and resistive tearing mode are summarized.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Yi-Min Huang , A. Bhattacharjee , Ellen G. Zweibel

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

A numerical method for the quasi-neutral two-fluid (QNTF) plasma model is described. The basic equations are ion and electron fluid equations and the Maxwell equations without displacement current. The neglect of displacement current is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Takanobu Amano

Although the influence of magnetic fields is regarded as vital in the star formation process, only a few magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations have been performed on this subject within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Florian Bürzle , Paul C. Clark , Federico Stasyszyn , Thomas Greif , Klaus Dolag , Ralf S. Klessen , Peter Nielaba

The formation of current sheets in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows in two dimensions is studied numerically using the technique of adaptive mesh refinement. The growth of current density is in agreement with simple scaling…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Holger Friedel , Rainer Grauer , Christiane Marliani

High-energy astrophysical systems and compact objects are frequently modeled using ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) or force-free electrodynamic (FFE) simulations, with the underlying assumption that the discretisation from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Michael P. Grehan , Tanisha Ghosal , James R. Beattie , Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Fabio Bacchini

We establish the local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the free-boundary ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with surface tension in three spatial dimensions by a suitable modification of the Nash--Moser iteration…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Yuri Trakhinin , Tao Wang

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solvers used to study dynamic plasmas for magnetic confinement fusion typically rely on initial conditions that describe force balance, which are provided by an equilibrium solver based on the Grad-Shafranov (GS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Rushan Zhang , Golo Wimmer , Qi Tang

Magnetic reconnection in an antiparallel uniform Harris current sheet equilibrium, which is initially perturbed by a region of enhanced resistivity limited in all three dimensions, is investigated through compressible magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joerg Schumacher , Bernhard Kliem , Norbert Seehafer

A new fully discrete linearized $H^1$-conforming Lagrange finite element method is proposed for solving the two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamics equations based on a magnetic potential formulation. The proposed method yields numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Buyang Li , Jilu Wang , Liwei Xu

We describe a numerical scheme for studying time-dependent, multifluid, magnetohydrodynamic shock waves in weakly ionized interstellar clouds and cores. Shocks are modeled as propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field and consist of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Glenn E. Ciolek , Wayne G. Roberge

In toroidally confined plasmas, the Grad-Shafranov equation, in general a non-linear PDE, describes the hydromagnetic equilibrium of the system. This equation becomes linear when the kinetic pressure is proportional to the poloidal magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Ciro , I. L. Caldas

Random constraint satisfaction problems can exhibit a phase where the number of constraints per variable $\alpha$ makes the system solvable in theory on the one hand, but also makes the search for a solution hard, meaning that common…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-11 Angelo Giorgio Cavaliere , Thibault Lesieur , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We prove the local-in-time existence of solutions with a contact discontinuity of the equations of ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for 2D planar flows provided that the Rayleigh-Taylor sign condition $[\partial p/\partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Alessandro Morando , Yuri Trakhinin , Paola Trebeschi

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

This paper studies high-order accurate entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for the ideal special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). It is built on the modified RMHD equations with a particular source term, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Junming Duan , Huazhong Tang

In Lagrangian coordinates, the local well-posedness of low regularity solutions is established for an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system subject to a homogeneous background magnetic field. First, the MHD system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Huali Zhang

Due to the absence of dissipation mechanism to the inviscid compressible systems, it is a challenging problem to prove their global solvability. In this paper, we are concerned with the initial-boundary value problem to the inviscid and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Jinkai Li , Liening Qiao

Further studies on the corner singularity of GS reconstruction are are compiled in this paper. It's focused on solution of the Data Completion (DC) problem with the Extended Hilbert Transform (EHT) over plane rectangular region. Optimal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 Huijun LI , Chongyin Li , Xueshang Feng , Jie Xiang , Yingying Huang , Shudao Zhou