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A new formulation of time-dependent Relaxed Magnetohydrodynamics (RxMHD) is derived variationally from Hamilton's Action Principle using microscopic conservation of mass, and macroscopic conservation of total magnetic helicity, cross…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 R. L. Dewar , J. W. Burby , Z. Qu , N. Sato , M. J. Hole

We introduce a novel structure-preserving method in order to approximate the compressible ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. This technique addresses the MHD equations using a non-divergence formulation, where the contributions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov , Ignacio Tomas

(Abridged) We describe a new algorithm for solving the coupled frequency-integrated transfer equation and the equations of magnetohydrodynamics when the light-crossing time is only marginally shorter than dynamical timescales. The transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-24 Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis

We review recent axisymmetric and three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations of magnetospheric accretion, plasma-field interaction and outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace , M. Bachetti , A. A. Blinova , A. V. Koldoba , R. Kurosawa , P. S. Lii , G. V. Ustyugova

The characteristic decomposition for GRMHD is not known in a form useful for current numerical simulations. This prevents us from using the most accurate known computational methods, such as full-wave Riemann solvers. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Saul A. Teukolsky

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

In this chapter, we aim at presenting the basic techniques necessary to go beyond the widely accepted paradigm of second-order numerics. We specifically focus on finite-volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws occuring in fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Jean-Mathieu Teissier , Wolf-Christian Müller

In this work we develop a class of high-order finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (FD-WENO) schemes for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in 2D and 3D. The philosophy of this work is to use efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Andrew J. Christlieb , James A. Rossmanith , Qi Tang

The fully three dimensional governing equations in the electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) regime for a plasma with inhomogeneous density is obtained. These equations in the two dimensional (2-D) limit can be cast in terms of the evolution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sharad Kumar Yadav , Amita Das , Predhiman Kaw

We present a systematic theoretical and numerical investigation of the propagation properties of linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in a spatially periodic magnetic field, referred to as a magneto-lattice. Two types of central…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shiyu Sun , Peifeng Fan , Yulei Wang , Qiang Chen , Xingkai Li , Weihua Wang

We present a four-field Virtual Element discretization for the time-dependent resistive Magnetohydrodynamics equations in three space dimensions, focusing on the semi-discrete formulation. The proposed method employs general polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Franco Dassi , Gianmarco Manzini , Lorenzo Mascotto

Astrophysical relativistic flow problems require high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. In this paper, we describe a new parallel three-dimensional code for simulations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Weiqun Zhang

According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional magnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations conducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er , Lorenzo Sironi , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Based on the Newton's second law and the Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic fields, we establish a new 3D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics(MHD) equations for the motion of plasma under the standard Coulomb gauge. By using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Ruikuan Liu , Jiayan Yang

Simulating plasmas in the Hall-MagnetoHydroDynamics (Hall-MHD) regime represents a valuable {approach for the investigation of} complex non-linear dynamics developing in astrophysical {frameworks} and {fusion machines}. Taking into account…

We present and compare third- as well as fifth-order accurate finite difference schemes for the numerical solution of the compressible ideal MHD equations in multiple spatial dimensions. The selected methods lean on four different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mignone , P. Tzeferacos , G. Bodo

A nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolation is widely used to reconstruct the three-dimensional magnetic field in the solar corona from the observed photospheric magnetic field. However, the pressure gradient and gravitational forces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Takahiro Miyoshi , Kanya Kusano , Satoshi Inoue

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

Numerical simulations of weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized relativistic jets embedded in a weakly magnetized and strongly magnetized stationary or weakly relativistic (v = c/2) sheath have been performed. A magnetic field parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yosuke Mizuno , Philip Hardee , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

Extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) is a fluid plasma model generalizing ideal MHD by taking into account the impact of Hall drift effects and the influence of electron inertial effects. XMHD has a Hamiltonian structure which has received…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Christophe Cheverry , Nicolas Besse