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We present a novel approach to compute three-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic equilibria by parametrizing Fourier modes with artificial neural networks and compare it to equilibria computed by conventional solvers. The full nonlinear global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Timo Thun , Andrea Merlo , Rory Conlin , Dario Panici , Daniel Böckenhoff

Magnetic fields play an important role in astrophysics on a wide variety of scales, ranging from the Sun and compact objects to galaxies and galaxy clusters. Here we discuss a novel implementation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruediger Pakmor , Andreas Bauer , Volker Springel

A representation of the static MHD equilibrium system in coordinates connected with magnetic surfaces is suggested. It is used for producing families of non-trivial 3D exact solutions of isotropic and anisotropic plasma equilibria in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei F. Cheviakov

We calculate the stability of a multiple relaxation region MHD (MRXMHD) plasma, or stepped-Beltrami plasma, using both variational and tearing mode treatments. The configuration studied is a periodic cylinder. In the variational treatment,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. J. Hole , R. Mills , S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar

Whether the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions of $n$-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD for short) equations with only kinematic viscosity or magnetic diffusion holds true or not remains an outstanding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Yaowei Xie , Quansen Jiu , Jitao Liu

We investigate the solutions of the relaxed MHD model (RxMHD) of Dewar \& Qu [J. Plasma Phys. {\bf 88}, 835880101 (2022)]. This model generalizes Taylor relaxation by including the ideal Ohm's law constraint using an augmented Lagrangian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Arash Tavassoli , Stuart R. Hudson , Zhisong Qu , Matthew Hole

We study the 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in an annular cylinder, perturbed around the explicit steady state given by the 3D Taylor-Couette velocity field and zero magnetic field. Combining a recent linear instability result for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Víctor Navarro-Fernández , David Villringer

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

This paper is concerned with the stability and large-time behavior of 3D incompressible MHD equations with only vertical dissipation near a background magnetic field. By making full use of the dissipation generated by the background…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Suhua Lai , Jiahong Wu , Jianwen Zhang , Xiaokui Zhao

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

We consider the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a bounded domain with small volume and free moving surface boundary. We establish a priori estimate for solutions with minimal regularity assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

We present a new numerical tool for solving the special relativistic ideal MHD equations that is based on the combination of the following three key features: (i) a one-step ADER discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme that allows for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Olindo Zanotti , Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser

In this paper, we prove the global existence of smooth solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical system with initial data close enough to the equilibrium state, $(e_3,0).$ Compared with the the previous works…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Hammadi Abidi , Ping Zhang

We consider the compressible Magnetic Relaxation Equations on the three-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^{3}$. The system is derived from compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) by replacing the acceleration term with a Darcy-type friction.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Taehun Kim

In this paper, we present a family of new mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity for both spatial dimensions $n=2,3$, which yields a conforming and strongly symmetric approximation for stress. Applying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Shihua Gong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

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

We describe a Godunov-type magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code based on the Miyoshi and Kusano (2005) solver which can be used to solve various astrophysical hydrodynamic and MHD problems. The energy equation is in the form of entropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , P. S. Lii , M. L. Comins , S. Dyda , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

We show that the variational energy principle of multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamic (MRxMHD) model can be used to predict finite-pressure linear tearing instabilities. In this model, the plasma volume is sliced into sub-volumes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 A. Kumar , J. Loizu , M. J. Hole , Z. Qu , S. R. Hudson , R. L Dewar

In this paper, we exhibit non-uniqueness of Leray weak solutions of the forced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD for short) equations. Similar to the solutions constructed in \cite{ABC2}, we first find a special steady solution of ideal MHD…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Jun Wang , Fei Xu , Yong Zhang