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We formulate a magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) method for describing the interaction between collisionless cosmic ray (CR) particles and a thermal plasma. The thermal plasma is treated as a fluid, obeying equations of ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Xue-Ning Bai , Damiano Caprioli , Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The limitations of Hall MHD as a model for turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas are explored using quantitative comparisons to Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic theory over a wide range of parameter space. The validity of Hall MHD in the cold ion…

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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…

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When supersonic plasma flows collide, many physical processes contribute to the morphology of the resulting shock. One of these processes is the acceleration of non-thermal ions, which will, eventually, reach relativistic speeds and become…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Allard Jan van Marle

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

In partially ionised plasmas, the magnetic field can become decoupled from the neutral gas and diffuse through it in a process known as ambipolar diffusion. Although ambipolar diffusion has been implemented in several grid codes, we here…

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We present an extension of the multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamics (MRxMHD) equilibrium model that includes plasma flow. This new model is a generalization of Woltjer's model of relaxed magnetohydrodynamics equilibria with flow. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 G. R. Dennis , S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , M. J. Hole

Weak turbulence of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in strongly magnetized plasma is studied when the thermal pressure is less than the magnetic field pressure. In this situation the main nonlinear mechanism is the resonance scattering of…

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The coupled motion between the hydrodynamic flow and magnetic field introduces significant complexity into the structure of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A key factor contributing to this complexity is the presence of Alfv\'en…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang

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

We briefly overview our newly developed radiation transport module for MHD simulations and two actual applications. The method combines the advantage of the speed of the Flux-Limited Diffusion approximation and the high accuracy obtained in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Rolf Kuiper , Mario Flock , Hubert Klahr

We describe the interaction of parallel-propagating Alfv\'en waves with ion-acoustic waves and other Alfv\'en waves, in magnetized, high-$\beta$ collisionless plasmas. This is accomplished through a combination of analytical theory and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Stephen Majeski , Matthew W. Kunz

We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

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

Drift-reduced MHD models are widely used to study magnetised plasma phenomena, in particular for magnetically confined fusion applications, as well as in solar and astrophysical research. This letter discusses the choice of Ohm's law in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 B. D. Dudson , S. L. Newton , J. T. Omotani , J. Birch

We review the conservation laws of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding homogeneous and isotropic Universe that can be applied to the study of early Universe physics during the epoch of radiation domination. The conservation laws for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Alberto Roper Pol , Antonino Salvino Midiri

We present a general formulation of special-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and derive exact radially self-similar solutions for axisymmetric outflows from strongly magnetized, rotating compact objects. We generalize previous work by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nektarios Vlahakis , Arieh Konigl

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 equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

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