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We investigate the behaviour of nonlinear, nonideal Alfv\'en wave propagation within an inhomogeneous magnetic environment. The governing MHD equations are solved in 1D and 2D using both analytical techniques and numerical simulations. We…

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The Lorentz force induced by the magnetic field in MHD flow introduces a fundamental difference from pure gas dynamics by facilitating the anisotropic propagation of small disturbances, thus the type of steady MHD equations depends on not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang

We study the behavior of nonlinear waves in a two-dimensional medium with density and stress relation that vary periodically in space. Efficient approximate Riemann solvers are developed for the corresponding variable-coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Manuel Quezada de Luna David I. Ketcheson

The model we deal with is the mathematical model for mutually penetrating continua one of which is the carrying medium obeying the wave equation whereas the other one is the oscillating inclusion described by the equation for oscillators.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-12-17 Sergii Skurativskyi , Vjacheslav Danylenko

We solve for waves in an isothermal, stratified medium with a magnetic field that points along a direction perpendicular to that of gravity and varies exponentially in the direction of gravity. We find exact analytical solutions for two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 B. Tripathi , Dhrubaditya Mitra

The theory of nonlinear magnetoacoustic wave in the past has strictly been focused on purely compressive features of the mode. We show that a complete set of nonlinear equations necessarily includes both compressional and shear components…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 J. Vranjes , B. P. Pandey

Using self-consistent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, we explore the hypothesis that nonlinear MHD waves dominate the internal dynamics of galactic molecular clouds. We employ an isothermal equation of state and allow for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Charles F. Gammie , Eve C. Ostriker

We have derived the full set of MHD equations for incompressible shear flow of a magnetized fluid and considered their solution in the wave-vector space. The linearized equations give the famous amplification of slow magnetosonic waves and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Z. D. Dimitrov , Y. G. Maneva , T. S. Hristov , T. M. Mishonov

This paper sheds new light on the stability properties of solitary wave solutions associated with models of Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin\&Bona\&Mahoney type, when the dispersion is very lower. Via an approach of compactness, analyticity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Jaime Angulo Pava

We present numerical studies of 3-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a strongly magnetized medium in the extremely relativistic limit, in which the inertia of the charge carriers can be neglected. We have focused on strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jungyeon Cho

Using numerical modeling investigated interaction of solitary waves (solitons) of the regularized long wave equation. For reception the stable model of the nonlinear medium are used methods of the linear prediction and progressive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Bunyak

We analyze the model of topological fermions (MTF), where charged fermions are treated as soliton solutions of the field equations. In the region far from the sources we find plane waves solutions with the properties of electro-magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitry Borisyuk , Manfried Faber , Alexander Kobushkin

A workflow is developed based on the ideal MHD model to investigate the linear physics of various Alfv\'en eigenmodes in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry, by solving the coupled shear Alfv\'en wave (SAW) and ion sound wave (ISW)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Guangyu Wei , Matteo Valerio Falessi , Tao Wang , Fulvio Zonca , Zhiyong Qiu

We study the spectral stability of solitary wave solutions to the nonlinear Dirac equation in one dimension. We focus on the Dirac equation with cubic nonlinearity, known as the Soler model in (1+1) dimensions and also as the massive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Gregory Berkolaiko , Andrew Comech

Fully localised three-dimensional solitary waves are steady water waves which are evanescent in every horizontal direction. This paper presents an existence theory for such waves under the assumptions that the relative vorticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

The linearized relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) equations describing a uniform axially magnetized cylindrical relativistic jet spine embedded in a uniform axially magnetized relativistically moving sheath are derived. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Philip E Hardee

Damping due to continuum resonances can be calculated using dissipation-less ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provided that the poles due to these resonances are properly treated. We describe a singular finite element technique for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 George W. Bowden , Matthew J. Hole

We explore superradiance for Alfv\'en waves (Alfv\'enic superradiance) in an axisymmetric rotating magnetosphere of a Kerr black hole within the force-free approximation. On the equatorial plane of the Kerr spacetime, the Alfv\'en wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Sousuke Noda , Yasusada Nambu , Masaaki Takahashi , Takuma Tsukamoto

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

We perform nonlinear general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations of poloidal magnetic fields in rotating polytropic neutron stars. We have three primary goals: i) to understand the nature of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities…

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