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This paper proposes a mode multigrid (MMG) method, and applies it to accelerate the convergence of the steady state flow on unstructured grids. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) technique is used to analyze the convergence process of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang , Jiaqing Kou

Due to the prevalence of magnetic fields in astrophysical environments, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation has become a basic tool for studying astrophysical fluid dynamics. To further advance the precision of MHD simulations, we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jeongbhin Seo , Dongsu Ryu

There is a great need in several areas of astrophysics and space-physics to carry out high order of accuracy, divergence-free MHD simulations on spherical meshes. This requires us to pay careful attention to the interplay between mesh…

In this work we extend the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver in the moving mesh code AREPO to include the Hall effect. The core of our algorithm is based on an estimation of the magnetic field gradients by a least-square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Oliver Zier , Alexander C. Mayer , Volker Springel

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomoaki Matsumoto

Probing magnetic fields in astrophysical environments is both important and challenging. The Gradient Technique (GT) is a new tool for tracing magnetic fields, rooted in the properties of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and turbulent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-18 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

The paper proposes and develops a novel inexact gradient method (IGD) for minimizing C1-smooth functions with Lipschitzian gradients, i.e., for problems of C1,1 optimization. We show that the sequence of gradients generated by IGD converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Pham Duy Khanh , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dat Ba Tran

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code for the simulation of wave propagation in the solar atmosphere, under the effects of electrical resistivity, but not dominant, and heat transference in a uniform 3D grid. The code is based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Anamaría Navarro , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González

We present a fourth-order accurate finite volume method for the solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The numerical method combines high-order quadrature rules in the solution of semi-discrete formulations of hyperbolic conservation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Kyle Gerard Felker , James Stone

We propose an arbitrarily high-order globally divergence-free entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to directly solve the conservative form of the ideal MHD equations using appropriate quadrature rules. The method ensures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a continuum level model for conducting fluids subject to external magnetic fields, e.g. plasmas and liquid metals. The efficient and robust solution of the MHD system poses many challenges due to it's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-18 J. H. Chaudhry , A. E. Rappaport , J. N. Shadid

We describe a numerical method to solve the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. The fluid variables are updated along each direction using the flux conservative, 2nd order, total variation diminishing (TVD), upwind scheme of Jin and Xin.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ue-Li Pen , Phil Arras , ShingKwong Wong

We present an updated constrained hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning algorithm for smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) that remains conservative with wave cleaning speeds which vary in space and time. This is accomplished…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

We revise the structure-preserving finite element method in [K. Hu, Y. MA and J. Xu. (2017) Stable finite element methods preserving $\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B}=0$ exactly for MHD models. Numer. Math.,135, 371-396]. The revised method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Weifeng Qiu , Ke Shi

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are continuum models used in the study of a wide range of plasma physics systems, including the evolution of complex plasma dynamics in tokamak disruptions. However, efficient numerical solution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Qi Tang , Luis Chacon , Tzanio V. Kolev , John N. Shadid , Xian-Zhu Tang

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

We design a conservative finite difference scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations that attains high-order accuracy, shock-capturing, and divergence-free condition of the magnetic field. The scheme interpolates pointwise physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Takashi Minoshima , Takahiro Miyoshi , Yosuke Matsumoto

This paper is devoted to the design and analysis of some structure-preserving finite element schemes for the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. The main feature of the method is that it naturally preserves the important Gauss law, namely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Kaibo Hu , Yicong Ma , Jinchao Xu

The gap between a recently developed dynamical version of relaxed magnetohydrodynamics (RxMHD) and ideal MHD (IMHD) is bridged by approximating the zero-resistivity "Ideal" Ohm's Law (IOL) constraint using an augmented Lagrangian method…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 R. L. Dewar , Z. S. Qu

Within the context of a viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model with anisotropic heat transport and cross-field mass diffusion, we introduce novel three-term representations for the magnetic field (background vacuum field, field line…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Nikita Nikulsin , Matthias Hoelzl , Alessandro Zocco , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Günter