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Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Lile Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

The global regularity for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations (MHD) in three dimensions is a long standing open problem of fluid dynamics and PDE theory. The Navier-Stokes equations can be viewed as a special case of MHD with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Zhen Lei

We formulate a coarse-graining approach to the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids at a continuum of length-scales. In this methodology, effective equations are derived for the observable velocity and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Hussein Aluie

This paper concerns the viscous and non-resistive MHD systems which govern the motion of electrically conducting fluids interacting with magnetic fields. We consider an initial-boundary value problem for both compressible and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Zhong Tan , Yanjin Wang

We are concerned with the 3D incompressible Hall-magnetohydro-dynamic system (Hall-MHD). Our first aim is to provide the reader with an elementary proof of a global well-posedness result for small data with critical Sobolev regularity, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Raphaël Danchin , Jin Tan

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

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the 3D MHD equations with mixed partial dissipation near a background magnetic field in the domain $\Omega=\mathbb{T}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ with $\mathbb{T}^2=[0, 1]^2$. More…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

We consider the Cauchy problem to the three-dimensional isentropic compressible Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with density-dependent viscosities. When the initial density is linearly equivalent to a large constant state, we prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Yachun Li , Peng Lu , Zhaoyang Shang

Nonlinear conservation laws such as the system of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations may develop singularities over time. In these situations, viscous regularization is a common approach to regain regularity of the solution. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Tuan Anh Dao , Lukas Lundgren , Murtazo Nazarov

We present a novel high-order nodal artificial viscosity approach designed for solving Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Unlike conventional methods, our approach eliminates the need for ad hoc parameters. The viscosity is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov

We consider the ideally conducting, viscous magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in two dimensions. Specifically, we study the nonlinear dynamics near a combination of Couette flow and a constant magnetic field in a periodic infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Michele Dolce , Niklas Knobel , Christian Zillinger

For any $0\leq \gamma < 1/5$, we construct weak solutions $(v, B, p )$ of the Ideal MHD Equations which do not conserve the total kinetic energy, the cross-helicity and lie in $C^\gamma(\mathbb{T}^3\times\mathbb{R})$. In the spirit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Matteo Giardi , László Székelyhidi

In ideal MHD, the magnetic flux is advected by the plasma motion, freezing flux-surfaces into the flow. An MHD equilibrium is reached when the flow relaxes and force balance is achieved. We ask what classes of MHD equilibria can be accessed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 David Pfefferlé , Lyle Noakes , Yao Zhou

The noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to construct variational principles for symmetric equilibrium configurations of magnetized plasma including flow. In particular, helical symmetry is considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Tommaso Andreussi , Philip J. Morrison , Francesco Pegoraro

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

We present a new variational formulation for Viscous and resistive Hall Magnetohydrodynamic. We first find a variational principle for ideal HMHD by applying the physical assumptions leading to HMHD at the lagrangian level, and then we add…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

Coronal heating has been a long-standing conundrum in solar physics. Parker's conjecture that spontaneous current singularities lead to nanoflares that heat the corona has been controversial. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), can genuine…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Yao Zhou

Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics has reached a level of maturity that enables the study of a wide range of astrophysical problems. In this review, the numerical details of the modern SPMHD method are described. The three fundamental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Terrence S. Tricco

In this paper, we propose a conservative nonconforming virtual element method for the full stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics model. We leverage the virtual element satisfactory divergence-free property to ensure mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

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