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In this paper, we propose and analyze a fully discrete finite element projection method for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A modified Crank--Nicolson method and the Galerkin finite element method are used to discretize the model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Cheng Wang , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

This article introduces a new 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium solver, based on the concept of admissible variations of B, p that allows for magnetic relaxation of a magnetic field in a perturbed/non-minimum energy state to a lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Tobias Blickhan , Julianne Stratton , Alan A. Kaptanoglu

Numerically solving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations faces many challenges: avoiding divergence error, maintaining positivity, and satisfying entropy conditions. Among discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes, there has been a modal version…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Yue Wu , Chi-Wang Shu

We present strategies based upon extremization principles, in the case of the axisymmetric equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We study the equilibrium shape by using a minimum energy principle under the constraints of the MHD…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Leprovost , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Berengere Dubrulle

This paper is concerned with constructing an invariant-domain preserving approximation technique for the compressible Euler equations with general equations of state that preserves the minimum principle on the physical entropy. We derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Bennett Clayton , Eric J. Tovar

A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

We describe a new method to include magnetic fields into smooth particle hydrodynamics. The derivation of the self-gravitating hydrodynamics equations from a variational principle is discussed in some detail. The non-dissipative magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 S. Rosswog , D. J. Price

This paper presents a Crank-Nicolson leap-frog (CNLF) scheme for the unsteady incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The spatial discretization adopts the Galerkin finite element method (FEM), and the temporal discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Zhiyong Si , Mingyi Wang , Yunxia Wang

Central schemes for conservation laws are Riemann solver free methods which are simple and easy to implement. In recent work for Euler equations [Kurganov & Xin, J. Sci. Comput., 96:56, 2023] their accuracy has been enhanced in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yu-Chen Cheng , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for solving the inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By utilizing the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach for dealing with the convective and coupling terms, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Xiaodi Zhang , Xianghai Zhou

The metriplectic framework, which permits to formulate an algebraic structure for dissipative systems, is applied to visco-resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD), adapting what had already been done for non-ideal Hydrodynamics (HD). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Massimo Materassi , Emanuele Tassi

Magnetic field topology frozen in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and its breakage in near ideal MHD are reviewed in two parts. The first part gives a physically complete description of the frozen in field topology, taking magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-22 B. C. Low

We extend the entropy-stable oscillation-eliminating discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (ES-OEDG) on curvilinear meshes to adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) grids with nonconforming interfaces. The formulation targets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Jieling Yang , Guosheng Fu

This paper is devoted to the study of the weak-strong uniqueness property for the full compressible magnetohydrodynamics flows. The governing equations for magnetohydrodynamic flows are expressed by the full Navier-Stokes system for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-16 Weiping Yan

We propose a numerical method to solve general hyperbolic systems in any space dimension using forward Euler time stepping and continuous finite elements on non-uniform grids. The properties of the method are based on the introduction of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Jean-Luc Guermond , Bojan Popov

Higher order finite volume schemes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) are very valuable because they allow us to carry out astrophysical simulations with very high accuracy. However, astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Deepak Bhoriya , Chetan Singh , Harish Kumar , Roger Käppeli , Federico Gatti

Stability conditions of magnetized plasma flows are obtained by exploiting the Hamiltonian structure of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations and, in particular, by using three kinds of energy principles. First, the Lagrangian variable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. Andreussi , P. J. Morrison , F. Pegoraro

In this paper, we are interested in constructing a scheme solving compressible Navier--Stokes equations, with desired properties including high order spatial accuracy, conservation, and positivity-preserving of density and internal energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Chen Liu , Xiangxiong Zhang

A semi-implicit in time, entropy stable finite volume scheme for the compressible barotropic Euler system is designed and analyzed and its weak convergence to a dissipative measure-valued (DMV) solution [E. Feireisl et al., Dissipative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-07 K. R. Arun , Amogh Krishnamurthy

The ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations are, roughly speaking, a quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic system of PDEs, but not all the unknowns play the same role in this system. Indeed, in the regime of small magnetic fields, the equations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Dimitri Cobb , Francesco Fanelli