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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

Magnetic helicity plays a tremendously important role when it is different from zero on average. Most notably, it leads to the phenomenon of an inverse cascade. Here, we consider decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence as well as some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Axel Brandenburg , Gustav Larsson

The ideal invariants present in the formalism of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), i.e. global quantities that are conserved in the absence of sources and dissipative effects, play an important role in various theoretical and numerical studies of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-08-15 B. Teaca , C. C. Lalescu , B. Knaepen , D. Carati

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

In this work, we design an entropy stable, finite volume approximation for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The method is novel as we design an affordable analytical expression of the numerical interface flux function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner

We study the linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, both in the Newtonian and the general-relativistic limit, as regards a viscous magnetized fluid of finite conductivity and discuss instability criteria. In addition, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Kleidis , A. Kuiroukidis , D. B. Papadopoulos , L. Vlahos

In the framework of a mixed finite element method, a structure-preserving formulation for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general boundary conditions is proposed. A leapfrog-type temporal scheme fully decouples the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Andrea Brugnoli , Deepesh Toshniwal , Marc Gerritsma

In this paper, we prove the energy and cross-helicity conservation of weak solutions to the three-dimensional ideal MHD equations in bounded domain under the interior Besov regularity conditions which are exactly same as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Yi Wang , Bijun Zuo

Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities are investigated in a computationally tractable two-dimensional model of the solar tachocline. The model's differential rotation yields stability in the absence of a magnetic field, but if a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Abigail Plummer , J. B. Marston , S. M. Tobias

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Tuan Anh Dao , Lukas Lundgren , Murtazo Nazarov

We show that in 3-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamics there exist infinitely many bounded solutions that are compactly supported in space-time and have non-trivial velocity and magnetic fields. The solutions violate conservation of total…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Daniel Faraco , Sauli Lindberg , László Székelyhidi

Results are presented of direct numerical simulations of incompressible, homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence without a mean magnetic field, subject to different mechanical forcing functions commonly used in the literature.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-29 Mairi E. McKay , Moritz Linkmann , Daniel Clark , Adam A. Chalupa , Arjun Berera

We formulate a coarse-graining approach to the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids at a continuum of length-scales. In this methodology, effective equations are derived for the observable velocity and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Hussein Aluie

In this tutorial, a derivation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) valid beyond the usual ideal gas approximation is presented. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is used to obtain conservation equations and linear constitutive relations. When…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Jarett LeVan , Scott Baalrud

The study investigates the problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free convection over a non-isothermal axisymmetric body under the action of transverse magnetic field. The body is embedded in a porous medium saturated with electrically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Shobha Bagai , Chandrashekhar Nishad

Magnetic helicity is an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that encodes information on the topology of magnetic field lines. It has long been appreciated that magnetic topology is an important constraint for the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

In the framework of the variational principle there are introduced canonical variables describing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows of general type without any restrictions for invariants of the motion. It is shown that the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kats

In this article, we study the stability and large time behavior for an multi-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamical system with a velocity damping term, for small perturbations near a steady-state of magnetic field fulfilling the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Hui Fang , Pingping Gui , Yanping Zhou

We propose a result of global stability for the equations of homogeneous, incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on a torus of any dimension $d \in \{2,3,...\}$, with positive viscosity and resistivity. This result applies to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Livio Pizzocchero , Emanuele Tassi

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the upper half-space with slip boundary conditions, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Jincheng Gao , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu , Zheng-an Yao