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A method for implementing cylindrical coordinates in the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code is described. The extension follows the approach of Athena's original developers and has been designed to alter the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron Skinner , Eve Ostriker

Using a new numerical code we have carried out two-dimensional simulations of the nonlinear evolution of unstable sheared magnetohydrodynamic flows. We considered two cases: a strong magnetic field (Alfven Mach number, M_a = 2.5) and a weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Adam Frank , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Joseph B. Gaalaas

We present a new method for evolving the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (both Newtonian and relativistic) that is capable of maintaining a divergence-free magnetic field ($\nabla \cdot \mathbf{B} = 0$) on adaptively refined, conformally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 P. Chris Fragile , Daniel Nemergut , Payden L. Shaw , Peter Anninos

Magnetohydrodynamics is an important tool to study the dynamics of plasma Space Physics. In this context, we introduce a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic solver with divergence-cleaning in the adaptive multiresolution CARMEN code. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

We extend the recently introduced explicit divergence-free DG scheme for incompressible hydrodynamics [arXiv:1808.04669]. to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). A globally divergence-free finite element space is used for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Guosheng Fu

We consider the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based numerical method for thin film magnetization problems [Vestg{\aa}rden and Johansen, SuST, 25 (2012) 104001], compare it with the finite element methods, and evaluate its accuracy. Proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Leonid Prigozhin , Vladimir Sokolovsky

In this paper we propose a novel thermodynamically compatible finite volume scheme for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in one and two space dimensions. As shown by Godunov in 1972, the MHD system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser

We propose and analyze two convection quasi-robust and pressure robust finite element methods for a fully nonlinear time-dependent magnetohydrodynamics problem. Both methods employ the $H_{\rm div}$ conforming BDM element coupled with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-12 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Vacca

We show that an infinite number of non-unitary minimal models may describe two dimensional turbulent magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), both in the presence and absence of the Alf'ven effect. We argue that the existence of a critical dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. R. Rahimitabar , S. Rouhani

The space-discrete Total Variation (TV) flow is analyzed using several mode decomposition techniques. In the one-dimensional case, we provide analytic formulations to Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) and to Koopman Mode Decomposition (KMD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Ido Cohen , Tom Berkov , Guy Gilboa

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are generally known to be difficult to solve numerically, due to their highly nonlinear structure and the strong coupling between the electromagnetic and hydrodynamic variables, especially for high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabian Laakmann , Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell

We investigate numerically the dynamics of two-dimensional Euler and ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flows in systems with a finite number of modes, up to $4096^2$, for which several quadratic invariants are preserved by the truncation and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Giorgio Krstulovic , Marc-Etienne Brachet , Annick Pouquet

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 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

This paper introduces the Sheffield Magnetohydrodynamics Algorithm Using GPUs (SMAUG+), an advanced numerical code for solving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) problems, using multi-GPU systems. Multi-GPU systems facilitate the development of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 N. Gyenge , M. K. Griffiths , R. Erdélyi

Numerical solutions of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are reported for the interior of a rotating, perfectly-conducting, rigid spherical shell that is insulator-coated on the inside. A previously-reported spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , D. C. Montgomery , L. Turner

In this paper we investigate the use of the vector potential as a means of maintaining the divergence constraint in the numerical solution of the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel J. Price

A new implementation for the time evolution of the magnetic vector potential is obtained for smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics by considering the induction equation in integral form. Galilean invariance is achieved through proper gauge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price

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

Electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence in two dimensions is studied via high-resolution numerical simulations with a normal diffusivity. The resulting energy spectra asymptotically approach a $k^{-5/2}$ law with increasing $R_B$,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-01 C. J. Wareing , R. Hollerbach