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This work presents an extension of discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods to the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Although similar to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations at first sight, there are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Marvin Bohm , Andrew R. Winters , Dominik Derigs , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Joachim Saur

We propose a principled method for gradient-based regularization of the critic of GAN-like models trained by adversarially optimizing the kernel of a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). We show that controlling the gradient of the critic is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Michael Arbel , Danica J. Sutherland , Mikołaj Bińkowski , Arthur Gretton

Magneto-hydrodynamics is one of the foremost models in plasma physics with applications in inertial confinement fusion, astrophysics and elsewhere. Advanced numerical methods are needed to get an insight into the complex physical phenomena.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Jan Nikl , Milan Kuchařík , Stefan Weber

This work presents the first numerical investigation of using Voigt regularization as a method for obtaining magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria without the assumption of nested magnetic flux surfaces. Voigt regularization modifies the MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Yi-Min Huang , Justin Kin Jun Hew , Andrew Brown , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We describe a new method to include magnetic fields into smooth particle hydrodynamics. The derivation of the self-gravitating hydrodynamics equations from a variational principle is discussed in some detail. The non-dissipative magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 S. Rosswog , D. J. Price

Balsara (2001, J. Comput. Phys., 174, 614) showed the importance of divergence-free reconstruction in adaptive mesh refinement problems for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and the importance of the same for designing robust second order schemes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dinshaw S. Balsara

The study on the implicit regularization induced by gradient-based optimization is a longstanding pursuit. In the present paper, we characterize the implicit regularization of momentum gradient descent (MGD) with early stopping by comparing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Li Wang , Yingcong Zhou , Zhiguo Fu

We develop a new second-order unstaggered path-conservative central-upwind (PCCU) scheme for ideal and shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The new scheme possesses several important properties: it locally preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Alina Chertock , Alexander Kurganov , Michael Redle , Kailiang Wu

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

We extend recently-developed mesh-free Lagrangian methods for numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to arbitrary anisotropic diffusion equations, including: passive scalar diffusion, Spitzer-Braginskii conduction and viscosity, cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Philip F. Hopkins

We propose and analyze a new method for the unsteady incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations on convex domains with hybrid approximations of both vector-valued and scalar-valued fields. The proposed method is convection-semirobust,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou , Vito Patierno

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 investigate the ideal and incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in three space dimensions for the development of potentially singular structures. The methodology consists in implementing the four-fold symmetries of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. E. Brachet , M. D. Bustamante , G. Krstulovic , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet , D. Rosenberg

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are indispensable research infrastructure in astrophysics today. In order to satisfy the solenoidal constraint of the MHD equations on discretized grids, modern simulation codes often employ either…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Kengo Tomida , Kenji Eric Sadanari , Shinsuke Takasao , Kazunari Iwasaki

In this paper we study the problem of divergence-free numerical MHD and show that the work done so far still has four key unresolved issues. We resolve those issues in this paper. The problem of reconstructing MHD flow variables with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara

This paper focuses on an optimal error analysis of a fully discrete finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard--magnetohydrodynamic (CH-MHD) system. The method use the standard inf-sup stable Taylor--Hood/MINI elements to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Haiyan Su , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Ke Zhang

We present a novel method of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics scheme using the Geometric Density average force expression (GDSPH). GDSPH has recently been shown to reduce the leading order errors and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Robert Wissing , Sijing Shen

A high-fidelity finite volume scheme based on the BVD (boundary variation diminishing) concept is proposed in this study to solve the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. A hybrid spatial reconstruction profile, consisting of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-24 Pan Chenxi , Song Sheng , Chen Chungang , Li Xingliang , Shen Xueshun , Xiao Feng

The profound comprehension of the evolution and phenomenology of an Active Galactic Nucleus requires an accurate exploration of the dynamics of the magnetized gaseous disk surrounding the massive black hole in the centre. Many numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Giacomo Fedrigo , Alessandro Lupi

The first paper of this series presents a discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on three-dimensional curvilinear unstructured hexahedral meshes. Compared to other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Marvin Bohm , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Dominik Derigs , Florian Hindenlang , Joachim Saur