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It is generally believed that turbulence has a significant impact on the dynamics and evolution of molecular clouds and the star formation which occurs within them. Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic effects are known to influence the nature of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-17 Turlough P. Downes , Stephen O'Sullivan

This paper describes a numerical scheme for multi-fluid hydrodynamics in the limit of small mass densities of the charged particles. The inertia of the charged particles can then be neglected, which makes it possible to write an evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. E. G. Falle

We investigate whether or not the low ionisation fractions in molecular cloud cores can solve the `magnetic braking catastrophe', where magnetic fields prevent the formation of circumstellar discs around young stars. We perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 James Wurster , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

Hall instability in electron magnetohydrodynamics is interpreted as the shear-Hall instability driven jointly by helicoidal oscillations and shear in the electron current velocity. This explanation suggests an antiparallel orientation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Leonid Kitchatinov

We present a study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a weakly ionised, multifluid MHD plasma with parameters matching those of a typical molecular cloud. The instability is capable of transforming well-ordered flows into disordered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. C. Jones , T. P. Downes

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

We present an implementation of the Hall term in the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations into the adaptive-mesh-refinement code RAMSES to study its impact on star formation. Recent works show that the Hall effect heavily influences the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Pierre Marchand , Benoît Commerçon , Gilles Chabrier

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

\large{\bf Abstract-} Unsteady Hall Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) near a hyperbolic magnetic neutral line is investigated. An exact analytical solution describing a self-similar evolution is given. This solution shows a negligible impact on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysics on a wide variety of scales, ranging from the Sun and compact objects to galaxies and galaxy clusters. Here we discuss a novel implementation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruediger Pakmor , Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel

We investigate the density-shear instability in Hall-MHD via numerical simulation of the full non-linear problem, in the context of magnetar activity. We confirm the development of the instability of a plane-parallel magnetic field with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Todor Kondic , Maxim Lyutikov , Rainer Hollerbach

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in an accretion disc is an important problem because it determines the launching of winds and the feasibility of the magnetorotational instability to generate turbulence or channel…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Philip K. C. Leung , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most promising mechanism by which angular momentum is efficiently transported outwards in astrophysical discs. However, its application to protoplanetary discs remains problematic. These discs…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthew W. Kunz , Geoffroy Lesur

We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

Hall-MHD is a mixed hyperbolic-parabolic partial differential equation that describes the dynamics of an ideal two fluid plasma with massless electrons. We study the only shock wave family that exists in this system (the other…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 George I. Hagstrom , Eliezer Hameiri

The incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (Hall--MHD) system presents substantial analytical and computational challenges due to its stiff, highly nonlinear Hall term and the strict requirement that the magnetic field remains solenoidal.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Beniamin Goldys , Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran

We investigate the importance of ambipolar diffusion and Hall currents for high-resolution comprehensive ('realistic') photospheric simulations. To do so we extended the radiative magnetohydrodynamics code \emph{MURaM} to use the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mark C. M. Cheung , Robert H. Cameron

The partial ionization of the solar plasma causes several nonideal effects such as the ambipolar diffusion, the Hall effect, and the Biermann battery effect. Here we report on the first three-dimensional realistic simulations of solar local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 P. A. Gonzalez-Morales , E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , M. Collados

We present here a minor modification of our numerical implementation of the Hall effect for the 2D Riemann solver used in Constrained Transport schemes, as described in Marchand et al. (2018). In the previous work, the tests showed that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 Pierre Marchand , Kengo Tomida , Benoît Commerçon , Gilles Chabrier

The electron inertia term and the off-diagonal electron pressure terms are well-known for the frozen-in condition breakdown in collisionless magnetic reconnection, which are naturally kinetic and difficult to be employed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 H. W. Zhang , Z. W. Ma , T. Chen