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Freely decaying relativistic force-free turbulence is studied for the first time. We initiate the magnetic field at a short wavelength and simulate its relaxation toward equilibrium on two and three dimensional periodic domains, in both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-02 Jonathan Zrake , William E. East

We revisit the Blandford & Znajek (1977) process and solve the fundamental equation that governs the structure of the steady-state force-free magnetosphere around a Kerr black hole. The solution depends on the distributions of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

The Lorentz force induced by the magnetic field in MHD flow introduces a fundamental difference from pure gas dynamics by facilitating the anisotropic propagation of small disturbances, thus the type of steady MHD equations depends on not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang

We examine the dynamics of magnetic flux tubes containing non-trivial field line braiding (or linkage), using mathematical and computational modelling, in the context of testable predictions for the laboratory and their significance for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 D. I. Pontin , S. Candelaresi , A. J. B. Russell , G. Hornig

Context. The understanding of fossil fields origin, topology and stability is one of the corner stones of the stellar magnetism theory. On one hand, since they survive over secular time-scales, they may modify the structure and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 V. Duez , S. Mathis

We investigate in details properties of stationary force-free magnetosphere of aligned rotator assuming the last closed field line lying in equatorial plane at large distances from pulsar. The pulsar equations is solved numerically using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

The stability of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) interchange mode at marginal conditions is studied. A sufficiently strong constant magnetic field component transverse to the direction of mode symmetry provides the marginality…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 Jupiter Bagaipo , P. N. Guzdar , A. B. Hassam

We construct a class of stationary, axisymmetric, horizonless spacetimes whose curvature is generated entirely by smooth, localised differential rotation $\Omega(r)$, while the spatial geometry remains exactly flat. Despite vanishing ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Tiberiu Harko

We investigate a new model of nonlinear electromagnetic field coupled with the gravitation field. The black hole solution is obtained possessing the asymptotic Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution. The electric field has the finite value at the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 S. I. Kruglov

We revisit in this work the problem of the maximum masses of magnetized White Dwarfs (WD). The impact of a strong magnetic field onto the structure equations is addressed. The pressures become anisotropic due to the presence of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 D. Manreza Paret , A. Perez Martinez , J. E. Horvath

The rotational energy of a Kerr black hole is often invoked as the free energy source that powers compact astrophysical systems An important question concerning the energy extraction mechanism is whether a Kerr black hole can communicate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amir Levinson

The equilibrium of a resistive axisymmetric plasma with purely toroidal flow surrounded by a conductor is investigated within the framework of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic theory. It is proved that a) the poloidal current density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

We study the stability of closed, not necessarily smooth, equilibrium surfaces of an anisotropic surface energy for which the Wulff shape is not necessarily smooth. We show that if the Cahn Hoffman field can be extended continuously to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-20 Bennett Palmer

In this paper, we establish two stability theorems for steady or traveling solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation in a finite periodic channel, extending Arnold's classical work from the 1960s. Compared to Arnold's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Guodong Wang

The explosion of a type Ia supernova starts in a white dwarf as a laminar deflagration at the center of the star and soon several hydrodynamic instabilities, in particular, the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, begin to act. A cellular…

We envisage a black hole perturbed by a force-free magnetic field (FFMF) outside and attempt to determine its structure. We suppose the metric that describes this black hole is of the static spherical type, that is Schwarzschild, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

In this paper, using both quantum magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and magnetohydrostatic (MHS) models of a relativistically degenerate magnetic compact star, the fundamental role of Landau orbital ferromagnetism (LOFER) on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

In this paper the first non-linear force-free Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium is presented. One component of the equilibrium magnetic field has the same spatial structure as the Harris sheet, but whereas the Harris sheet is kept in force balance…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael G. Harrison , Thomas Neukirch

It is demonstrated that static, charged, spherically--symmetric black holes in string theory are classically and catastrophically unstable to linearized perturbations in four dimensions, and moreover that unstable modes appear for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Gilbert