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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is positioned as having ideal conservation properties. When properly implemented, conservation of total mass, energy, and both linear and angular momentum is guaranteed exactly, up to machine precision.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Oleg Korobkin , Hyun Lim , Irina Sagert , Julien Loiseau , Christopher Mauney , M. Alexander R. Kaltenborn , Bing-Jyun Tsao , Wesley P. Even

Stochastic mechanics is regarded as a physical theory to explain quantum mechanics with classical terms such that some of the quantum mechanics paradoxes can be avoided. Here we propose a new variational principle to uncover more insights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Jianhao M. Yang

We apply the stochastic variational method to the action of the ideal fluid and showed that the Navier-Stokes equation is derived. In this variational method, the effect of dissipation is realized as the direct consequence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-28 T. Koide

We present a constrained formulation of Dedner et al's hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning scheme for enforcing the \nabla\dot B = 0 constraint in Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) simulations. The constraint we impose is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-17 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price

The noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used to construct variational principles for symmetric equilibrium configurations of magnetized plasma including flow. In particular, helical symmetry is considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Tommaso Andreussi , Philip J. Morrison , Francesco Pegoraro

We present a reduced magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mathematical model describing the dynamical behavior of highly conducting plasmas with frozen-in magnetic fields, constrained by the assumption that, there exists a frame of reference, where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Igor V Sokolov , Lulu Zhao , Tamas I Gombosi

The perturbative variational formulation of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations is presented up to third order in the perturbation analysis. From the second and third-order Lagrangian densities, respectively, the first-order and second-order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Alain J. Brizard

In this paper, we investigate whether Variational Principles can be associated with the Helmholtz equation subject to impedance (absorbing) boundary conditions. This model has been extensively studied in the literature from both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 G. Makrakis , C. Makridakis , D. Mitsoudis , M. Plexousakis , T. Pryer

Rigorous theories of the tearing instability are mathematically quite involving. Therefore, the present note aims to demonstrate how their main results can be reproduced by a simple qualitative analysis of the respective magnetohydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Grigory Vekstein

We present a MATLAB code that implements the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The paper reviews the continuous Navier-Stokes equations as well as their SPH approximation, adopting a coherent notation that allows to make easy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-13 Marco Sutti

By applying a variational principle on a magnetic system within the framework of extended irreversible thermodynamics, we find that the presence of a temperature gradient in a ferromagnet leads to a generalisation of the Landau-Lifshitz…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 Sylvain D. Brechet , Jean-Philippe Ansermet

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

This work presents a new multiphase SPH model that includes the shifting algorithm and a variable smoothing length formalism to simulate multi-phase flows with accuracy and proper interphase management. The implementation was performed in…

Stochastic field theories are often constructed phenomenologically, without a systematic assessment of thermodynamic consistency or local detailed balance. This may hinder a physical description of irreversibility at the field-theoretic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

Variational integrators are a special kind of geometric discretisation methods applicable to any system of differential equations that obeys a Lagrangian formulation. In this thesis, variational integrators are developed for several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Michael Kraus

We present for astrophysical use a multi-dimensional numerical code to solve the equations for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It is based on an explicit finite difference method on an Eulerian grid, called the Total Variation Diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations for solving the inductionless magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By utilizing the scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach for dealing with the convective and coupling terms, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Xiaodi Zhang , Xianghai Zhou

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 2022-11-22 Fabian Laakmann

This article serves as a summary outlining the mathematical entropy analysis of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We select the ideal MHD equations as they are particularly useful for mathematically modeling a wide variety of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Dominik Derigs , Gregor J. Gassner , Stefanie Walch , Andrew R. Winters

The exact law for fully developed homogeneous compressible magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD) turbulence is derived. For an isothermal plasma, without the assumption of isotropy, the exact law is expressed as a function of the plasma velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Nahuel Andrés , Fouad Sahraoui