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The paper considers the plane one-dimensional flows for magnetohydrodynamics in the mass Lagrangian coordinates. The inviscid, thermally non-conducting medium is modeled by a polytropic gas. The equations are examined for symmetries and…

A new fully discrete linearized $H^1$-conforming Lagrange finite element method is proposed for solving the two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamics equations based on a magnetic potential formulation. The proposed method yields numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Buyang Li , Jilu Wang , Liwei Xu

We present a new numerical code, X-ECHO, for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes. This is aimed at studying astrophysical situations where strong gravity and magnetic fields are both supposed to play an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

We present a discontinuous Galerkin-finite-difference hybrid scheme that allows high-order shock capturing with the discontinuous Galerkin method for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The hybrid method is conceptually quite simple.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Nils Deppe , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Saul A. Teukolsky

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

The second paper of this series presents two robust entropy stable shock-capturing methods for discontinuous Galerkin spectral element (DGSEM) discretizations of the compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Specifically, we use…

Due to the absence of a transverse expansion with respect to the beam direction, the Bjorken flow is unable to describe certain observables in heavy ion collisions. This caveat has motivated the introduction of analytical relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-30 M. Shokri , N. Sadooghi

This work introduces a generalized characteristic mapping method designed to handle non-linear advection with source terms. The semi-Lagrangian approach advances the flow map, incorporating the source term via the Duhamel integral. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Xi-Yuan Yin , Philipp Krah , Jean-Christophe Nave , Kai Schneider

We describe a novel Godunov-type numerical method for solving the equations of resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In the proposed approach, the spatial components of both magnetic and electric fields are located at zone interfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 A. Mignone , G. Mattia , G. Bodo , L. Del Zanna

In this study, we develop a simplified magnetofluid model in the framework of GRMHD. We consider an ideal, adiabatic fluid composed of two components, ions and electrons, having a constant ratio between their temperatures. The flows are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

The Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) system of equations governs viscous fluids subject to a magnetic field and is derived via a coupling of the Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell's equations. Recently it has become common to study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lorenzo Riva , Nathan Pennington

We present a general framework to design Godunov-type schemes for multidimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems, having the divergence-free relation and the related properties of the magnetic field B as built-in conditions. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Londrillo , L. Del Zanna

The magnetorotational instability originates from the elastic coupling of fluid elements in orbit around a gravitational well. Since inertial accelerations play a fundamental dynamical role in the process, one may expect substantial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rafael Angel Araya-Gochez

A recent paper considered symmetries and conservation laws of the plane one-dimensional flows for magnetohydrodynamics in the mass Lagrangian coordinates. This paper analyses the one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics flows with cylindrical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Vladimir A. Dorodnitsyn , Evgeniy I. Kaptsov , Roman V. Kozlov , Sergey V. Meleshko

In magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows, incompressibility is assumed for low Mach numbers. However, even at low Mach numbers, the Mach number influences flow and magnetic fields. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a method that can stably…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Hideki Yanaoka

We demonstrate, both at the Newtonian and (general) relativistic levels, the existence of a generalization of Kelvin's circulation theorem (for pure fluids) which is applicable to perfect magnetohydrodynamics. The argument is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Asaf Oron

It is shown analytically that the energy-conserving implicit nonsymplectic scheme of Bacchini, Ripperda, Chen and Sironi provides a first-order accuracy to numerical solutions of a six-dimensional conservative Hamiltonian system. Because of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Shiyang Hu , Xin Wu , Enwei Liang

We present a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent numerical scheme for classical magnetohydrodynamics, incorporating viscosity, magnetic resistivity, heat transfer, and thermoelectric effect. The governing equations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz , Bastien Manach-Pérennou

We present a novel structure-preserving numerical scheme for discontinuous finite element approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems. The method can be understood as a generalization of the Lax-Friedrichs flux to a high-order staggered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Tarik Dzanic , Will Trojak , Freddie D. Witherden