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A new fully discrete linearized $H^1$-conforming Lagrange finite element method is proposed for solving the two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamics equations based on a magnetic potential formulation. The proposed method yields numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Buyang Li , Jilu Wang , Liwei Xu

After a review of the isentropic compressible magnetohydrodynamics (ICMHD) equations, a quaternionic framework for studying the alignment dynamics of a general fluid flow is explained and applied to the ICMHD equations.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. D. Gibbon , D. D. Holm

Based on the Newton's second law and the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic fields, we establish a new 3D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics(MHD) equations for the motion of plasma under the standard Coulomb gauge. By using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Ruikuan Liu , Jiayan Yang

In this work we numerically test a model of Hall magnetohydrodynamics in the presence of a strong mean magnetic field, the reduced Hall MHD model (RHMHD) derived by Gomez et al., with the addition of weak compressible effects. The main…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 L. N. Martin , P. Dmitruk , D. O. Gomez

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

We study the Born-Infeld equation from a Lagrangian point of view emphasizing the duality symmetry present in such systems. We obtain the Hamiltonian formulation directly from the Lagrangian. We also show that this system admits a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. C. Brunelli , Ashok Das

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

A wave turbulence theory is developed for inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics (IEMHD) in the presence of a relatively strong and uniform external magnetic field $\boldsymbol{B_0} = B_0 \hat{\boldsymbol{e}}_\|$. This regime is relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Vincent David , Sébastien Galtier

Recent progress regarding the noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD), a model with Hall drift and electron inertia, is summarized. The advantages of the Hamiltonian approach are invoked to study some…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 George Miloshevich , Manasvi Lingam , Philip J. Morrison

The gap between a recently developed dynamical version of relaxed magnetohydrodynamics (RxMHD) and ideal MHD (IMHD) is bridged by approximating the zero-resistivity "Ideal" Ohm's Law (IOL) constraint using an augmented Lagrangian method…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 R. L. Dewar , Z. S. Qu

We wish to explore a link between the Lax integrability of the $q$-Painlev\'e equations and the symmetries of the $q$-Painlev\'e equations. We shall demonstrate that the connection preserving deformations that give rise to the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2011-05-10 Christopher M. Ormerod

A version of Noether's second theorem using Lagrange multipliers is used to investigate fluid relabelling symmetries conservation laws in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We obtain a new generalized potential vorticity type conservation equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , R. L. Mace

We analyze the influence of the magnetic field in the convexity properties of the relativistic magnetohydrodynamics system of equations. To this purpose we use the approach of Lax, based on the analysis of the linearly degenerate/genuinely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 José-María Ibáñez , Isabel Cordero-Carrión , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , José-María Martí , Juan-Antonio Miralles

It is well known that the three-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations possess three magnetic invariants: (M) magnetic helicity, (C) cross helicity, and (P) the mean-square magnetic potential, in addition to the fundamental…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Naoki Sato , Ken Abe , Michio Yamada

Two types of Eulerian action principles for relativistic extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are formulated. With the first, the action is extremized under the constraints of density, entropy, and Lagrangian label conservation, which leads…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yohei Kawazura , George Miloshevich , Philip J. Morrison

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We present a method of determining a Lax representation for similarity reductions of autonomous and non-autonomous partial difference equations. This method may be used to obtain Lax representations that are general enough to provide the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-08-22 C. M. Ormerod , Peter H. van der Kamp , G. R. W. Quispel

In this note we consider the ideal compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a special two dimensional setting. We show that there exist particular initial data for which one obtains infinitely many entropy-conserving weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Christian Klingenberg , Simon Markfelder

In the single fluid, nonrelativistic, ideal-Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma description magnetic field lines play a fundamental role by defining dynamically preserved "magnetic connections" between plasma elements. Here we show how the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 F. Pegoraro

We study the relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly and dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely Chiral MagnetoHydroDynamics (CMHD). We formulate CMHD as a low-energy effective theory based on a generalized derivative expansion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Koichi Hattori , Yuji Hirono , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin