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We present three-dimensional solutions of the magnetohydrostatic equations in the co-rotating frame of reference outside a magnetized rigidly rotating cylinder. We make no symmetry assumption for the magnetic field, but to be able to make…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-30 Thomas Neukirch

This paper focuses on the 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations without magnetic diffusion in a periodic domain. We present a systematic approach to establishing the global existence of smooth solutions when the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu

We present a divergence-free and $H(div)$-conforming hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method and a computationally efficient variant called embedded-HDG (E-HDG) for solving stationary incompressible viso-resistive magnetohydrodynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Jau-Uei Chen , Tamás L. Horváth , Tan Bui-Thanh

We present a new divergence-free and well-balanced hybrid FV/FE scheme for the incompressible viscous and resistive MHD equations on unstructured mixed-element meshes in 2 and 3 space dimensions. The equations are split into subsystems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 F. Fambri , E. Zampa , S. Busto , L. Río-Martín , F. Hindenlang , E. Sonnendrücker , M. Dumbser

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are generally known to be difficult to solve numerically, due to their highly nonlinear structure and the strong coupling between the electromagnetic and hydrodynamic variables, especially for high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabian Laakmann , Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the three-dimensional whole space, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated by geophysical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jincheng Gao , Xianpeng Hu , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu

In this paper, we propose a robust solver for the finite element discrete problem of the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in three dimensions. By the mixed finite element method, both the velocity and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Lingxiao Li , Weiying Zheng

Numerical methods for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in more than one space dimension must either confront the challenge of controlling errors in the discrete divergence of the magnetic field, or else be faced with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Christiane Helzel , James A. Rossmanith , Bertram Taetz

We describe a numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference scheme on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme, which is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

Using recently developed adjoint methods for computing the shape derivatives of functions that depend on MHD equilibria (Antonsen et al. 2019; Paul et al. 2020), we present the first example of analytic gradient-based optimization of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Elizabeth Paul , Matt Landreman , Thomas Antonsen

The computational cost of constructing 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria is one of the limiting factors in stellarator research and design. Although data-driven approaches have been proposed to provide fast 3D MHD equilibria, the…

We consider the electron magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equation on the 3D torus $\mathbb T^3$. For a given smooth vector field $H$ with zero mean and zero divergence, we can construct a weak solution $B$ to the electron MHD in the space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Mimi Dai

In order to solve the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with a $\mathbf{\mathcal{H}}(\mathbf{div})$-conforming element, a novel approach is proposed to ensure the exact divergence-free condition on the magnetic field. The idea is to add…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Wei Cai , Jian Wu , Jianguo Xin

The Multi-region Relaxed MHD (MRxMHD) has been successful in the construction of equilibria in three-dimensional (3D) configurations. In MRxMHD, the plasma is sliced into sub-volumes separated by ideal interfaces, each undergoing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Z. S. Qu , R. L. Dewar , F. Ebrahimi , J. K. Anderson , S. R. Hudson , M. J. Hole

Newcomb's Lagrangian for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in Lagrangian labeling is discretized using discrete exterior calculus. Variational integrators for ideal MHD are derived thereafter. Besides being symplectic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Yao Zhou , Hong Qin , J. W. Burby , A. Bhattacharjee

This paper solves the global conormal regularity problem for the three-dimensional incompressible MHD equations with slip boundary condition near a background magnetic field. Motivated by applications in geophysics, the MHD system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jincheng Gao , Jiahong Wu , Zheng-an Yao , Xuan Yin

In this work we introduce a novel semi-implicit structure-preserving finite-volume/finite-difference scheme for the viscous and resistive equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) based on an appropriate 3-split of the governing PDE system,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Francesco Fambri

We present a meshless method for magnetohydrodynamics by evolving the vector potential of magnetic fields. A novel scheme and numerical techniques are developed to restrict the divergence of magnetic field, based on the Meshless Finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Xiongbiao Tu , Qiao Wang , Haonan Zheng , Liang Gao

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations model a wide range of plasma physics applications and are characterized by a nonlinear system of partial differential equations that strongly couples a charged fluid with the evolution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 J. H. Adler , T. Benson , E. C. Cyr , P. E. Farrell , S. MacLachlan , R. Tuminaro

Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider