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In outdoor acoustics, the calculations of sound propagating in air can be computationally heavy if the domain is chosen large enough to fulfil the Sommerfeld radiation condition. By strategically truncating the computational domain with a…

This article is devoted to the shape optimization of the internal structure of an electric motor, and more precisely of the arrangement of air and ferromagnetic material inside the rotor part with the aim to increase the torque of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Alessio Cesarano , Charles Dapogny , Peter Gangl

Neutron star electromagnetic activity produces pairs that fill their magnetosphere represented to the zeroth order by the force-free approximation. Neither dissipation nor acceleration nor radiation from charged particles is expected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Jérôme Pétri

We revisit the Blandford & Znajek (1977) process and solve the fundamental equation that governs the structure of the steady-state force-free magnetosphere around a Kerr black hole. The solution depends on the distributions of the magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

To explain the pulsed emission of the rotation powered pulsars from radio to gamma-ray, the polar cap models, the slot gap models, and the outer gap models are proposed. The recent observations suggest that these models are likely to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Shinya Yuki , Shinpei Shibata

A problem of magnetosphere formation on ion inertia scale around weakly magnetized bodies is investigated by means of laboratory experiment, analytical analysis and 2.5D Hall MHD simulation. Experimental evidence of specific magnetic field…

The main idea and procedure are presented for a new synthetical method on constraining 3-D structure of emission regions of pulsars. With this method the emission regions can be synthetically constrained by fitting multi-wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. G. Wang , H. Zhang , X. H. Cui , G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , Y. Liu , R. X. Xu

Adopting our new method for matching general relativistic, ideal magnetohydrodynamics to its force-free limit, we perform the first systematic simulations of force-free pulsar magnetospheres in general relativity. We endow the neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Milton Ruiz , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

We consider magnetospheric structure of rotating neutron stars with internally twisted axisymmetric magnetic fields. The twist-induced and rotation-induced toroidal magnetic fields align/counter-align in different hemispheres. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-19 Maxim Lyutikov , Praveen Sharma , Maxim Barkov

The magnetohydrodynamic current-vortex sheet is a free boundary problem involving a moving free surface separating two plasma regions. We prove the global nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the two dimensional ideal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yuan Cai , Zhen Lei

We show that toroidal magnetic field annihilation in the equatorial current sheet of the pulsar magnetosphere is related to how fast poloidal magnetic field lines close as we move away from the light cylinder. This determines the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ioannis Contopoulos

A common optimization problem in the areas of magnetized plasmas and fusion energy is the design of magnets to produce a given three-dimensional magnetic field distribution to high precision. When designing arrays of permanent magnets for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 K. C. Hammond , A. A. Kaptanoglu

Machine learning promises to deliver powerful new approaches to neutron scattering from magnetic materials. Large scale simulations provide the means to realise this with approaches including spin-wave, Landau Lifshitz, and Monte Carlo…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Anjana M. Samarakoon , D. Alan Tennant

We describe a new scheme for evolving the equations of force-free electrodynamics, the vanishing-inertia limit of magnetohydrodynamics. This pseudospectral code uses global orthogonal basis function expansions to take accurate spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Kyle Parfrey , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Lam Hui

Accurate reconstruction of magnetic fields in inaccessible regions is vital for many high-precision experiments in physics. Traditional methods, such as spherical harmonic expansion, often suffer from truncation errors that limit their…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-26 Haohan Yu , Zhanxu Hao , Bingzhi Li , Zejia Lu , Xiang Chen , Liang Li

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of twisted, force-free magnetospheres of non-rotating neutron stars, which are of interest in the modelling of magnetar properties and evolution. In our models the magnetic field smoothly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Taner Akgün , Juan Antonio Miralles , José A. Pons , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

Some of the most energetic pulsars exhibit rotation-modulated gamma-ray emission in the $0.1$ to $100$ GeV band. The luminosity of this emission is typically $0.1\text{-}10\%$ of the pulsar spin-down power (gamma-ray efficiency), implying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-20 Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

In this study, we introduce a method based on Separable Physics-Informed Neural Networks (SPINNs) for effectively solving the BGK model of the Boltzmann equation. While the mesh-free nature of PINNs offers significant advantages in handling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Jaemin Oh , Seung Yeon Cho , Seok-Bae Yun , Eunbyung Park , Youngjoon Hong

Context: Coronal magnetic null points have been implicated as possible locations for localised heating events in 2D models. We investigate this possibility about fully 3D null points. Aims: We investigate the nature of the fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-30 J. O. Thurgood , J. A. McLaughlin

This paper focuses on the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with mixed partial dissipation and magnetic diffusion. Our main result assesses the global stability of perturbations near the steady solution given by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu