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Lie-symmetry methods are used to determine the symmetry group of reduced magnetohydrodynamics. This group allows for arbitrary, continuous transformations of the fields themselves, along with space-time transformations. The derivation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-28 Panagiotis Koutsomitopoulos , Reese S. Lance , S. A. Yadavalli , R. D. Hazeltine

By using the quantum hydrodynamic and Maxwell equations, we derive nonlinear electron-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), Hall-MHD, and dust Hall-MHD equations for dense quantum magnetoplasmas. The nonlinear equations include the electromagnetic,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Shukla , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo

In this paper, we study the stochastic Hamiltonian flow in Wasserstein manifold, the probability density space equipped with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor, via the Wong--Zakai approximation. We begin our investigation by showing that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

Two types of Eulerian action principles for relativistic extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are formulated. With the first, the action is extremized under the constraints of density, entropy, and Lagrangian label conservation, which leads…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yohei Kawazura , George Miloshevich , Philip J. Morrison

On the basis of simple principles we derive and investigate the equations of relativistic plasma magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an arbitrary gravitational field. An exact solution describing the motion of magnetoactive plasma against the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-06 Yu. G. Ignatyev

In this paper we consider the multi-dimensional Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) system, by adopting an intrinsically hydrodynamic approach. The present work continues the analysis initiated in [6] where the one dimensional case was studied.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Hao Zheng

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

We propose a novel structure preserving discretization for viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics. We follow the recent line of work on discrete least action principle for fluid and plasma equation, incorporating the recent advances to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Valentin Carlier

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are routinely observed in the solar atmosphere. These waves are important in the context of solar physics as it is widely believed they can contribute to the energy budget of the solar atmosphere and are a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Samuel Skirvin , Viktor Fedun , Suzana Silva , Gary Verth

The dynamics of a dissipationless incompressible Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) medium is formulated using Lagrangian mechanics on a semidirect product of two volume preserving diffeomorphism groups. In the case of $\mathbb{T}^3$ or $E^3$,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Keisuke Araki

In the Klein-Gordon equation, quantum and relativistic parameters are strongly coupled, which poses significant analytical challenges in the derivation and analysis of related classical fluid models. In this paper, starting from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Ben Duan , Jun Li , Bin Guo , Rongrong Yan

Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities are investigated in a computationally tractable two-dimensional model of the solar tachocline. The model's differential rotation yields stability in the absence of a magnetic field, but if a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Abigail Plummer , J. B. Marston , S. M. Tobias

In this work we use the Euler hydrodynamic equations of fluids to study a model of galactic halos minimally coupled to a complex scalar field, which in the Newtonian limit they become the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system. Applying a Madelung…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Mario A. Rodríguez-Meza , Alberto Hernández-Almada y Tonatiuh Matos

This report describes a new magnetohydrodynamic numerical model based on a hexagonal spherical geodesic grid. The model is designed to simulate astrophysical flows of partially ionized plasmas around a central compact object, such as a star…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Florinski , X. Guo , D. S. Balsara , C. Meyer

We consider Lagrangians in Hamilton's principle defined on the tangent space $TG$ of a Lie group $G$. Invariance of such a Lagrangian under the action of $G$ leads to the symmetry-reduced Euler-Lagrange equations called the Euler-Poincar\'e…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Darryl D. Holm

Hydrodynamic equations for a one-component plasma are derived as a generalization of the Euler equations to include the effects of the long-range Coulomb interaction. By using a variational principle, these equations self-consistently unify…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Daniels Krimans , Seth Putterman

Motivated by some models arising in quantum plasma dynamics, in this paper we study the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger system with a power-type nonlinearity. We show the local well-posedness in $H^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\times H^{3/2}(\mathbb{R}^3)$ and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Paolo Antonelli , Michele D'Amico , Pierangelo Marcati

We derive a relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) theory for a dilute electron-ion gas governed by the Boltzmann-Vlasov equation, using the method of moments. This yields an extended MHD framework beyond standard astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 Khwahish Kushwah , Gabriel S. Denicol

This thesis investigates geometric approaches to quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) in order to develop applications in theoretical quantum chemistry. Based upon the momentum map geometric structure of QHD and the associated Lie-Poisson and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Michael S. Foskett

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