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Electromagnetic fields which solve the vacuum Maxwell equations in one spacetime are well-known to also be solutions in all spacetimes with conformally-related metrics. This provides a sense in which electromagnetism alone cannot be used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-13 Abraham I. Harte

We present a novel numerical method that allows the calculation of nonlinear force-free magnetostatic solutions above a boundary surface on which only the distribution of the normal magnetic field component is given. The method relies on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ioannis Contopoulos , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Manolis Georgoulis

It is shown that conformal symmetry exists in force-free electrodynamics (FFE) in Minkowski spacetime, a foundational framework for describing magnetospheres around astronomical objects. In force-free magnetospheres, charges are constrained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Huiquan Li , Jianyong Wang

This paper presents an in-depth exploration of timelike free geodesics in spatially curved Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. A unified approach for these geodesics encompassing both radial and non-radial trajectories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Omar Nemoul , Hichem Guergouri , Jamal Mimouni

Rotating magnetic structures are common in astrophysics, from vortex tubes and tornados in the Sun all the way to jets in different astrophysical systems. The physics of these objects often combine inertial, magnetic, gas pressure and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Manuel Luna , Eric Priest , Fernando Moreno-Insertis

The Magnetodynamics, or Force-Free Degenerate Electrodynamics, is recognized as a very useful approximation in studies of magnetospheres of relativistic stars. In this paper we discuss various forms of Magnetodynamic equations which can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 S. S. Komissarov

Chaotic free surface flows are challenging problems to simulate numerically, mainly due to the significant changes in geometry and frequent topological changes. Methods that track the evolution of the fluid in a Lagrangian formulation are a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Thomas Leyssens , Jonathan Lambrechts , Jean-François Remacle

Knowledge of free energy barriers separating different states is critically important for assessment of long-term stability of information stored in magnetic devices. This information, however, is not directly accessible by standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Jaroslav Tobik , Roman Martonak , Vladimir Cambel

In this paper, we present a covariant formalism that connects solutions to force-free electrodynamics in the non-null case and foliations of spacetime. In doing so, we are also able to derive an expression of the general non-null current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Govind Menon

We present a new improved version of our force-free electrodynamics (FFE) numerical code in spherical coordinates that extrapolates the magnetic field in the inner solar corona from a photospheric vector magnetogram. The code satisfies the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ioannis Contopoulos

In this study, we introduce a novel approach for deriving the solution of the ideal force-free steady-state pulsar magnetosphere in three dimensions. Our method involves partitioning the magnetosphere into the regions of closed and open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Ioannis Dimitropoulos , Ioannis Contopoulos , Vassilis Mpisketzis , Evangelos Chaniadakis

This paper provides an analytical examination of non-radial geodesics within the context of the spatially flat Friedmann Lema\^itre Robertson Walker (FLRW) spacetime. Using the symmetry properties of the system, two constants of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Omar Nemoul , Hichem Guergouri , Jamal Mimouni

Eulerian electrostatic kinetic simulations of unmagnetized plasmas (kinetic electrons and motionless protons) with high-frequency equilibrium perturbations have been employed to investigate the phase space free energy transfer across…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 G. Celebre , S. Servidio , F. Valentini

In this paper, we present a systematic study of the force-free field equation for simple axisymmetric configurations in spherical geometry and apply it to the solar active regions. The condition of separability of solutions in the radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 A. Prasad , A. Mangalam , B. Ravindra

This paper discusses a quasi-static evolution of a force-free magnetic field under slow sheared footpoint motions on the plasma's boundary, an important problem with applications to the solar and accretion disk coronae. The main qualitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitri A. Uzdensky

The force-free (or low inertia) limit of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be applied to many astrophysical objects, including black holes, neutron stars, and accretion disks, where the electromagnetic field is so strong that the inertia and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Cong Yu

We extend the anholonomic frame and connection deformation method, AFCDM, for constructing exact and parametric solutions in general relativity, GR, to geometric flow models and modified gravity theories, MGTs, with nontrivial torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-01 Laurenţiu Bubuianu , Sergiu I. Vacaru , Elşen Veli Veliev , Assel Zhamysheva

Numerical simulations of the force-free magnetodynamics (FFMD) of the electromagnetic field around a spinning black hole are useful to investigate the dynamic electromagnetic processes around a spinning black hole, such as the emergence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Shinji Koide , Tomoki Imamara

We study the gravitational collapse of a magnetized neutron star using a novel numerical approach able to capture both the dynamics of the star and the behavior of the surrounding plasma. In this approach, a fully general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Luis Lehner , Carlos Palenzuela , Steven L. Liebling , Christopher Thompson , Chad Hanna

Fourier solvers have become efficient tools to establish structure-property relations in heterogeneous materials. Introduced as an alternative to the Finite Element (FE) method, they are based on fixed-point solutions of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Jan Zeman , Tom W. J. de Geus , Jaroslav Vondřejc , Ron H. J. Peerlings , Marc G. D. Geers