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The interaction of plasma with magnetic field in the partially ionised solar atmosphere is frequently modelled via a single-fluid approximation, which is valid for the case of a strongly coupled collisional media, such as solar photosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 P. A. González-Morales , E. Khomenko , T. P. Downes , A. de Vicente

The simulation of hypersonic flows is computationally demanding due to large gradients of the flow variables caused by strong shock waves and thick boundary or shear layers. The resolution of those gradients imposes the use of extremely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Sarah Frauholz , Arianna Bosco , Birgit U. Reinartz , Siegfried Müller , Marek Behr

Using the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description, we develop a nonlinear dynamo model that couples the evolution of the large scale magnetic field with turbulent dynamics of the plasma at small scale by electromotive force (e.m.f.) in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Giuseppina Nigro , Pierlugi Veltri

We study the formation and evolution of jets in the solar atmosphere using numerical simulations of partially ionized plasma. The two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic equations with ion+electron and neutral hydrogen components are used in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-19 J. J. González-Avilés , K. Murawski , T. V. Zaqarashvili

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernovas, compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang

Accurate prediction of hypersonic flow fields over a compression ramp is critical for aerodynamic design but remains challenging due to the scarcity of experimental measurements such as velocity. This study systematically develops a data…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yuan Jia , Guoqin Zhao , Hao Ma , Xin Li , Chi Zhang , Chih-Yung Wen

Astrophysical fluids are turbulent, magnetized and frequently partially ionized. As an example of astrophysical turbulence, the interstellar turbulence extends over a remarkably large range of spatial scales and participates in key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-22 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

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

Fluid discontinuities, such as shock fronts and vortex sheets, can reflect waves and become unstable to corrugation. Analytical calculations of these phenomena are tractable in the simplest cases only, while their numerical simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 William Béthune

The coupled motion between the hydrodynamic flow and magnetic field introduces significant complexity into the structure of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A key factor contributing to this complexity is the presence of Alfv\'en…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

Magnetized turbulence is ubiquitous in many astrophysical and terrestrial plasmas but no universal theory exists. Even the detailed energy dynamics in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are still not well understood. We present a suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Philipp Grete , Brian W. O'Shea , Kris Beckwith

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is well known to be capable of converting well-ordered flows into more disordered, even turbulent, flows. As such it could represent a path by which the energy in, for example, bowshocks from stellar jets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-03 Aoife C. Jones , Turlough P. Downes

We report on simulations of laboratory experiments in which magnetized supersonic flows are driven through a wire mesh. The goal of the study was to investigate the ability of such a configuration to generate supersonic, MHD turbulence. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Erica Fogerty , Baowei Liu , Adam Frank , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Sergey Lebedev

We present a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model of quasi-stationary, two-dimensional magnetic reconnection in an incompressible plasma composed of electrons and ions. We find two distinct regimes of slow and fast reconnection. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Leonid M. Malyshkin

We present direct numerical simulations and alpha-model simulations of four familiar three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence effects: selective decay, dynamic alignment, inverse cascade of magnetic helicity, and the helical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , A. Pouquet

This study explores the effects of a non-conductive gas layer flowing concurrently with a conductive liquid on the two-phase flow characteristics in wide horizontal ducts under a constant vertical magnetic field. To this end, analytical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-25 Ilya Barmak , Subham Pal , Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code for the simulation of wave propagation in the solar atmosphere, under the effects of electrical resistivity, but not dominant, and heat transference in a uniform 3D grid. The code is based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Anamaría Navarro , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

During the Z-Pinch fusion process, electric current is injected into liquid metal from the plasma column, generating Lorentz forces that deform the liquid metal's free surface. Modeling this phenomenon is essential for assessing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Suresh Murugaiyan , Stefano Brizzolara