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A multi-symplectic formulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is developed based on a Clebsch variable variational principle in which the Lagrangian consists of the kinetic minus the potential energy of the MHD fluid modified by…
In this era of precision cosmology, a detailed physical understanding on the evolution of cosmic baryons is required. Cosmic magnetic fields, though still poorly understood, may represent an important component in the global cosmic energy…
Many astrophysical and terrestrial scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Although the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), a…
We describe a method for incorporating ambipolar diffusion in the strong coupling approximation into a multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics code based on the total variation diminishing scheme. Contributions from ambipolar diffusion terms…
A high-order method to evolve in time electromagnetic and velocity fields in conducting fluids with non-periodic boundaries is presented. The method has a small overhead compared with fast FFT-based pseudospectral methods in periodic…
We construct finite element methods for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system that precisely preserve magnetic and cross helicity, the energy law and the magnetic Gauss law at the discrete level. The variables are discretized…
Compressible vortex sheets are fundamental waves in entropy solutions to the multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. For the Euler equations in 2-D gas dynamics, the classical linearized stability analysis on compressible…
In two previous papers (Price & Monaghan 2004a,b) (papers I,II) we have described an algorithm for solving the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The algorithm uses dissipative…
We present a new divergence-free and well-balanced hybrid FV/FE scheme for the incompressible viscous and resistive MHD equations on unstructured mixed-element meshes in 2 and 3 space dimensions. The equations are split into subsystems. The…
We consider viscous free-boundary magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) under vacuum in $\mathbb{R}^3$, especially when vacuum magnetic field is identically zero. It is a central problem in mathematics to perform vanishing viscosity limit to get a…
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…
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…
We describe a novel splitting approach to numerical relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) designed to expand its applicability to the domain of ultra-high magnetisation (high-$\sigma$). In this approach, the electromagnetic field is…
We modify an existing magnetohydrodynamics algorithm to make it more compatible with a dimensionally-split (DS) framework. It is based on the standard reconstruct-solve-average strategy (using a Riemann solver), and relies on constrained…
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…
We propose a general class of genuinely two-dimensional incomplete Riemann solvers for systems of conservation laws. In particular, extensions of Balsara's multidimensional HLL scheme [J. Comput. Phys. 231 (2012) 7476-7503] to…
We prove the non-uniqueness of weak solutions to 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD for short) equations. The constructed weak solutions do not conserve the magnetic helicity and can be close to any given smooth, divergence-free and mean-free…
This paper is concerned with existence of solutions to the incompressible non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with large initial perturbations in there-dimensional (3D) periodic domains (in Lagrangian coordinates).…
Nonlinear conservation laws such as the system of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations may develop singularities over time. In these situations, viscous regularization is a common approach to regain regularity of the solution. In this…
A new class of materials is developed that is a liquid with both high conductivity and magnetic susceptibility for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) applications. We develop a general method for making such suspensions and demonstrate that various…