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We describe a novel splitting approach to numerical relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) designed to expand its applicability to the domain of ultra-high magnetisation (high-$\sigma$). In this approach, the electromagnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Serguei Komissarov , David Phillips

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

Relativistic macroscopic plasma dynamics can be described by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In many high-energy astrophysical settings, such as the interior dynamics of magnetized stars, the ideal GRMHD approximation, in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Sara Azizi , Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the solar atmosphere are often performed under the assumption that the plasma is fully ionized. However, in the lower solar atmosphere a reduced temperature often results in only the partial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Conor D. MacBride , David B. Jess , Elena Khomenko , Samuel D. T. Grant

The study of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence gives useful insights on many astrophysical problems. We describe a pseudo-spectral MHD code suitable for the study of incompressible turbulence. We review our recent works on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jungyeon Cho

The ideal MHD equations are a central model in astrophysics, and their solution relies upon stable numerical schemes. We present an implementation of a new method, which possesses excellent stability properties. Numerical tests demonstrate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Knut Waagan , Christoph Federrath , Christian Klingenberg

We present a new numerical implementation of the general-relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations within the Whisky code. The numerical method adopted exploits the properties of implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Kyriaki Dionysopoulou , Daniela Alic , Carlos Palenzuela , Luciano Rezzolla , Bruno Giacomazzo

A numerical algorithm for solving mantle convection problems with strongly variable viscosity is presented. Equations for conservation of mass and momentum for highly viscous and incompressible fluids are solved iteratively by a multigrid…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masanori Kameyama , Akira Kageyama , Tetsuya Sato

The interaction of plasma with magnetic field in the partially ionised solar atmosphere is frequently modelled via a single-fluid approximation, which is valid for the case of a strongly coupled collisional media, such as solar photosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 P. A. González-Morales , E. Khomenko , T. P. Downes , A. de Vicente

Numerical radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) for non-relativistic flows is a challenging problem because it encompasses processes acting over a very broad range of timescales, and where the relative importance of these processes often varies by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Chong-Chong He , Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz

This paper presents a new code for performing multidimensional radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) simulations on parallel computers involving anisotropic radiation fields and nonequilibrium effects. The radiation evolution modules described here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. Hayes , Michael L. Norman

A new three-dimensional, non-linear Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model has been extended in MIPS code, incorporating parallel heat diffusivity. The model has been benchmarked against the former MHD model used in MIPS code. A preliminary study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Civit-Bertran , S. Futatani , Y. Suzuki , J. Dominguez-Palacios

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on the ideal MHD equations have become a powerful tool for modeling phenomena in a wide range of applications including laboratory, astrophysical, and space plasmas. In general, high-resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Hon-Cheng Wong , Un-Hong Wong , Xueshang Feng , Zesheng Tang

Modeling the solar atmosphere is challenging due to its layered structure and multi-scale dynamics. We aim to validate the new radiative MHD code MAGEC, which combines the MANCHA and MAGNUS codes into a finite-volume, shock-capturing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Anamaría Navarro , E. Khomenko , N. Vitas , T. Felipe

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

We describe a numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference scheme on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

We present an improved version of the ECHO-QGP numerical code, which self-consistently includes for the first time the effects of electromagnetic fields within the framework of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). We discuss results of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-12 Gabriele Inghirami , Luca Del Zanna , Andrea Beraudo , Mohsen Haddadi Moghaddam , Francesco Becattini , Marcus Bleicher

The hybrid method combining particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamics can be used to study the interaction between energetic particles and global plasma modes. In this paper we introduce the M3D-C1-K code, which is developed based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Chang Liu , Stephen C. Jardin , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Nathaniel M. Ferraro , Joshua Breslau

The STARWALL/CAS3D/OPTIM code package is a powerful tool to study the linear MHD stability of 3D, ideal equilibria in the presence of multiply-connected ideal and/or resistive conducting structures, and their feedback stabilization by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 P. Merkel , E. Strumberger

We present an out-of-core hydrodynamic code for high resolution cosmological simulations that require terabytes of memory. Out-of-core computation refers to the technique of using disk space as virtual memory and transferring data in and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hy Trac , Ue-Li Pen