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This paper addresses the existence of equilibria for Mean Field type Control problems of first-order with non-convex action functional. Introducing a relaxed Lagrangian approach on the Wasserstein space to handle the lack of convexity. we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Cristian Mendico , Kaizhi Wang , Yuchen Xu

A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method, including both the model and scheme, is developed for multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible and incompressible fluid phases. The consistency of mass conservation and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

The present paper is based on our graduate lectures in condensed-matter physics. We found that the mean-field solution of the Hubbard model is an excellent tool to stimulate students' reflections towards the treatment of realistic magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-27 Yann Claveau , Brice Arnaud , Sergio Di Matteo

A Lagrangian density for viscous quark-gluon plasma has been constructed within the fluid-like QCD framework. Gauge symmetry is preserved for all terms inside the Lagrangian, except for the viscous term. The transition mechanism from point…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-15 T. P. Djun , B. Soegijono , T. Mart , L. T. Handoko

We show that for any effective field theory of colorless meson fields, the mixing schemes of particle states and decay constants are not only related but also determined exclusively by the kinetic and mass Lagrangian densities. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Gedalin , A. Moalem , L. Razdolskaya

We investigate the explicit convex relaxation of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. We provide a non-trivial lower estimate on the lamination hull and an upper estimate on the $\Lambda$-convex hull, the latter providing inequalities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Borbála Fazekas , József J. Kolumbán

We present a new, completely Lagrangian magnetohydrodynamics code that is based on the SPH method. The equations of self-gravitating hydrodynamics are derived self-consistently from a Lagrangian and account for variable smoothing length…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Rosswog , D. Price

We analyze stability conditions of "Maclaurin flows" (self-gravitating, barotropic, two dimensional, stationary streams moving in closed loops around a point) by minimizing their energy, subject to fixing all the constants of the motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Asher Yahalom Joseph Katz , Shogo Inagaki

In this paper, we are concerned with the initial boundary values problem associated to the compressible viscous non-resistive and heat-conducting magnetohydrodynamic flow, where the magnetic field is vertical. More precisely, by exploiting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Xiaoping Zhai , Yongsheng Li , Yajuan Zhao

Modelling interfacial dynamics with soluble surfactants in a multiphase system is a challenging task. Here, we consider the numerical approximation of a phase-field surfactant model with fluid flow. The nonlinearly coupled model consists of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Guangpu Zhu , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun , Jun Yao , Aifen Li

We investigate electromagnetic buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach when the momentum equations are solved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Anatoly Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

A unified energy principle approach is presented for analysing the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of plasmas consisting of multiple ideal and relaxed regions. By choosing an appropriate gauge, we show that the plasma displacement…

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

In the presence of a magnetic field applied perpendicular to a thin sample layer, a suspension of magnetic colloidal particles (ferrofluid) can form spatially modulated phases with a characteristic length determined by the competition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Lacoste , T. C. Lubensky

Context. For the last thirty years, most of the studies on the relaxation of stressed magnetic fields in the solar environment have onlyconsidered the Lorentz force, neglecting plasma contributions, and therefore, limiting every equilibrium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 Jorge Fuentes-Fernández , Clare E. Parnell , Alan W. Hood

We describe the construction of stepped-pressure equilibria as extrema of a multi-region, relaxed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) energy functional that combines elements of ideal MHD and Taylor relaxation, and which we call MRXMHD. The model is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , G. Dennis , M. J. Hole , M. McGann , G. von Nessi , S. Lazerson

We consider the free boundary problem for the plasma-vacuum interface in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In the plasma region, the flow is governed by the usual compressible MHD equations, while in the vacuum region we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Davide Catania , Marcello D'Abbicco , Paolo Secchi

Within the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model, high-Lundquist number reconnection layers are unstable to the plasmoid instability, leading to a turbulent evolution where the reconnection rate can be independent of the underlying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Stanier , W. Daughton , A. Le , X. Li , R. Bird

We derive a phase field crystal model that couples the diffusive evolution of a microscopic structure with the fast dynamics of a macroscopic velocity field, explicitly accounting for the relaxation of elastic excitations. This model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta

We show that a rigidly rotating, homogeneous ellipsoid of revolution threaded by a uniform, coaxial magnetic field is a possible figure of equilibrium. While the spheroidal shape is fully preserved, the rotation rate is modified.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 Jean-Marc Huré , Clément Staelen

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