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We develop a relativistic (quasi-)hydrodynamic framework, dubbed the gyrohydrodynamics, to describe fluid dynamics of many-body systems with spin under strong vorticity based on entropy-current analysis. This framework generalizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-04 Zheng Cao , Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang , Hidetoshi Taya

Magnetic helicity is a conserved quantity of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that is related to the topology of the magnetic field, and is widely studied in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. When the magnetic field has a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 David MacTaggart , Alberto Valli

A simple generalization of the MHD model accounting for the fluctuations of the configurations due to kinetic effects in plasmas in short times small scales is considered. The velocity of conductive fluid and the magnetic field are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-10-26 D. Volchenkov , R. Lima

Macroscopic evolution of relativistic charged matter with chirality imbalance is described by the chiral magnetohydrodynamics (chiral MHD). One such astrophysical system is high-density lepton matter in core-collapse supernovae where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Youhei Masada , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Naoki Yamamoto

We present a new numerical code which solves the general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations coupled to the Einstein equations for the evolution of a dynamical spacetime within the conformally-flat approximation. This code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José A. Font , Luis Antón , Ewald Müller

We derive a number of solution for one-dimensional dynamics of relativistic magnetized plasma that can be used as benchmark estimates in relativistic hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic numerical codes. First, we analyze the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Maxim Lyutikov , Samuel Hadden

Steady plasma flows have been studied almost exclusively in systems with continuous symmetry or in open domains. In the absence of continuous symmetry, the lack of a conserved quantity makes the study of flows intrinsically challenging. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Harold Weitzner , Wrick Sengupta

Relativistic magnetic reconnection is one of the most fundamental mechanisms considered responsible for the acceleration of relativistic particles in astrophysical jets and magnetospheres of compact objects. Understanding the properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 M. Bugli , E. F. Lopresti , E. Figueiredo , A. Mignone , B. Cerutti , G. Mattia , L. Del Zanna , G. Bodo , V. Berta

Conventional hydrodynamics describes systems with few long-lived excitations. In one dimension, however, many experimentally relevant systems feature a large number of long-lived excitations even at high temperature, because they are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Benjamin Doyon , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Frederik Møller , Jörg Schmiedmayer , Romain Vasseur

Motivated by the desire for highly accurate numerical computations of compact binary spacetimes in the era of gravitational wave astronomy, we reexamine hyperbolicity and well-posedness of the initial value problem for popular models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Andreas Schoepe , David Hilditch , Marcus Bugner

The concept of magnetic connections is extended to non-ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamical plasmas. Adopting a general set of equations for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics including thermal-inertial, thermal electromotive, Hall and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Felipe A. Asenjo , Luca Comisso

A new implementation for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity (involving dynamical spacetimes) is presented. In our implementation, Einstein's evolution equations are evolved by a BSSN formalism, MHD equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masaru Shibata , Yu-ichiou Sekiguchi

Nonthermal acceleration of particles in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a central role in a wide variety of astrophysical sites. This physics is addressed here in the context of a strong turbulence, composed of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 Martin Lemoine

Quantum plasma physics is a rapidly evolving research field with a very inter-disciplinary scope of potential applications, ranging from nano-scale science in condensed matter to the vast scales of astrophysical objects. The theoretical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Shabbir A. Khan , Michael Bonitz

We investigate the causality and stability of the relativistic theory of magnetohydrodynamics derived in Phys. Rev. D 109, 096021 (2024) to describe a locally neutral two-component plasma of massless particles. We show that this formalism…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Caio V. P. de Brito , Khwahish Kushwah , Gabriel S. Denicol

A third order shock-capturing numerical scheme for three-dimensional special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (3-D RMHD) is presented and validated against several numerical tests. The simple and efficient central scheme described in Paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Del Zanna , N. Bucciantini , P. Londrillo

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) flows along magnetic fields threading a black hole can be divided into inflow and outflow parts, according to the result of the competition between the black hole gravity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Hung-Yi Pu , Masanori Nakamura , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Kinwah Wu , Keiichi Asada

We consider relativistic charged particle dynamics and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics using symplectic structures and actions given in terms of co-adjoint orbits of the Poincar\'e group. The particle case is meant to clarify some points…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-19 Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

A fully geometrical treatment of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) is developed under the hypotheses of perfect conductivity, stationarity and axisymmetry. The spacetime is not assumed to be circular, which allows for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Eric Gourgoulhon , Charalampos Markakis , Koji Uryu , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi