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Computational electromagnetics (CEM) is employed to numerically solve Maxwell's equations, and it has very important and practical applications across a broad range of disciplines, including biomedical engineering, nanophotonics, wireless…

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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

Exact solutions to the static equilibrium magnetohydrodynamic equations are presented and discussed for both axially and helically reduced systems. For both symmetries, physical restrictions on the solutions are discussed and it is seen…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Jason M. Keller , Alexei F. Cheviakov

A representation of the static MHD equilibrium system in coordinates connected with magnetic surfaces is suggested. It is used for producing families of non-trivial 3D exact solutions of isotropic and anisotropic plasma equilibria in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei F. Cheviakov

For static reductions of isotropic and anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamics plasma equilibrium models, a complete classification of admitted point symmetries and conservation laws up to first order is presented. It is shown that the symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexei F. Cheviakov , Stephen C. Anco

Equilibrium equations for magnetically confined, axisymmetric plasmas are derived by means of the energy-Casimir variational principle in the context of Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This approach stems from the noncanonical Hamiltonian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 A. Giannis , D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We describe a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) constrained energy functional for equilibrium calculations that combines the topological constraints of ideal MHD with elements of Taylor relaxation. Extremizing states allow for partially chaotic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , M. J. Hole , M. McGann

Collisionless shocks are frequently analyzed using the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) formalism, even though MHD assumes a small mean free path. Yet, isotropy of pressure, fruit of binary collisions and assumed in MHD, may not apply in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Antoine Bret , Colby C. Haggerty , Ramesh Narayan

The hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations is suitable to describe a magnetized plasma at scales of the order of or larger than proton kinetic scales. An exact stationary solution is presented by revisiting previous results with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 F. Malara , O. Pezzi , F. Valentini

Numerical solution of equations governing time domain simulations in computational electromagnetics, is usually based on grid methods in space and on explicit schemes for the time evolution. A predefined grid in the problem domain and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Guido Ala , Elisa Francomano

In this tutorial, a derivation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) valid beyond the usual ideal gas approximation is presented. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is used to obtain conservation equations and linear constitutive relations. When…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Jarett LeVan , Scott Baalrud

High-fidelity numerical simulation serves as a cornerstone for exploring magnetization dynamics in micromagnetics. This work introduces a novel third-order temporally accurate and stable numerical scheme for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Changjian Xie

In this paper we present a novel pressure-based semi-implicit finite volume solver for the equations of compressible ideal, viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The new method is conservative for mass, momentum and total energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Michael Dumbser , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Maurizio Tavelli , Francesco Fambri

We present a novel variational derivation of the Maxwell-GLM system, which augments the original vacuum Maxwell equations via a generalized Lagrangian multiplier approach (GLM) by adding two supplementary acoustic subsystems and which was…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Michael Dumbser , Alessia Lucca , Ilya Peshkov , Olindo Zanotti

Fully realizing the potential of multigrid solvers often requires custom algorithms for a given application model, discretizations and even regimes of interest, despite considerable effort from the applied math community to develop fully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Mark F. Adams , Matthew K. Knepley

An asymptotic expansion is performed to obtain quasi-axisymmetric magnetic configurations that are weakly non-axisymmetric. A large space of solutions is identified, which satisfy the condition of quasi-axisymmetry on a single magnetic flux…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 G. G. Plunk , P. Helander

This paper presents the RBG-Maxwell framework, a relativistic collisional plasma simulator on GPUs. We provide detailed discussions on the fundamental equations, numerical algorithms, implementation specifics, and key testing outcomes. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Ming-Yan Sun , Peng Xu , Jun-Jie Zhang , Qun Wang , Tai-Jiao Du , Jian-Guo Wang

We consider a lowest-order finite element discretization of the nonlinear system of Maxwell's and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations (MLLG). Two algorithms are proposed to numerically solve this problem, both of which only require the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-30 L'ubomir Banas , Marcus Page , Dirk Praetorius

We present the theory, algorithms and implementation of a parallel finite-volume algorithm for the solution of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations using unstructured grids that are applicable for a wide variety of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-11 S. Vantieghem , A. Sheyko , A. Jackson

We propose to use a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combined with the continuous Galerkin (CG) method to approximate Maxwell's equations. We make two contributions in this paper. First, even though there are many papers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Gang Chen , Peter Monk , Yangwen Zhang