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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

Solutions to the compressible Euler equations in all dimensions have been shown to develop finite-time singularities from smooth initial data such as shocks and cusps. There is an extraordinary list of results on this subject. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

We develop structure-preserving numerical methods for the compressible Euler equations, employing potential temperature as a prognostic variable. We construct three numerical fluxes designed to ensure the conservation of entropy and total…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Marco Artiano , Oswald Knoth , Peter Spichtinger , Hendrik Ranocha

We present a divergence-free semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the simulation of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations which is stable for large time steps controlled by the local transport speed at all Mach and Alfv\'en…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Walter Boscheri , Andrea Thomann

We develop structure-preserving finite element methods for the incompressible, resistive Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. These equations incorporate the Hall current term in Ohm's law and provide a more appropriate description of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Fabian Laakmann , Patrick E. Farrell , Kaibo Hu

This paper studies the nonlinear evolution of magnetic field turbulence in proximity of steady ideal MHD configurations characterized by a small electric current, a small plasma flow, and approximate flux surfaces, a physical setting that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

This article serves as a summary outlining the mathematical entropy analysis of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We select the ideal MHD equations as they are particularly useful for mathematically modeling a wide variety of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Dominik Derigs , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Andrew R. Winters

We prove the existence of global in time, finite energy, weak solutions to a quantum magnetohydrodynamic system (QMHD) with large data, modeling a charged quantum fluid interacting with a self-generated electromagnetic field. The analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Raffaele Scandone

Moist thermodynamics is a fundamental driver of atmospheric dynamics across all scales, making accurate modeling of these processes essential for reliable weather forecasts and climate change projections. However, atmospheric models often…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru

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

This paper presents applications of weighted meshless scheme for conservation laws to the Euler equations and the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. The divergence constraint of the latter is maintained to the truncation error by a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Evghenii Gaburov , Keigo Nitadori

We extend the recently introduced explicit divergence-free DG scheme for incompressible hydrodynamics [arXiv:1808.04669]. to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). A globally divergence-free finite element space is used for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Guosheng Fu

Preserving the admissible set of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations is important not only for producing physically meaningful numerical solutions, but more importantly for achieving robust computations. In this paper, we develop…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Chen Liu , Chi-Wang Shu , Xiangxiong Zhang

In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows, incompressibility is assumed for low Mach numbers. However, even at low Mach numbers, the Mach number influences flow and magnetic fields. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a method that can stably…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Hideki Yanaoka

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

We prove the existence of both local and global smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem in $\R^3$ for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. We also prove that the solution to the incompressible MHD system can be obtained as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Anthony Suen

We investigate numerically the dynamics of two-dimensional Euler and ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flows in systems with a finite number of modes, up to $4096^2$, for which several quadratic invariants are preserved by the truncation and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Giorgio Krstulovic , Marc-Etienne Brachet , Annick Pouquet

This work presents an extension of discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods to the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Although similar to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations at first sight, there are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Marvin Bohm , Andrew R. Winters , Dominik Derigs , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Joachim Saur

This paper introduces a family of entropy-conserving finite-difference discretizations for the compressible flow equations. In addition to conserving the primary quantities of mass, momentum, and total energy, the methods also preserve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh , Gennaro Coppola

In this paper, we prove the energy conservation for the weak solutions to the three-dimensional equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic flows (MHD) under certain conditions only about density and velocity. This work is inspired by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Tingsheng Wang , Xinhua Zhao , Yingshan Chen , Mei Zhang