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The global regularity for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations (MHD) in three dimensions is a long standing open problem of fluid dynamics and PDE theory. The Navier-Stokes equations can be viewed as a special case of MHD with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Zhen Lei

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 problem of chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies is one of the most attracting and complex problems of modern astrophysics. Within the framework of the given work the standard dynamic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Berczik

Magnetic fields are known to be dynamically important in the interstellar medium of our own Galaxy, and they are ubiquitously observed in diffuse gas in the halos of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Yet, magnetic fields have typically been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 R. Pakmor , V. Springel

The equations of 2D incompressible dissipationless extended magnetohydrodynamics (XMHD) extend the equations of incompressible Hall MHD (HMHD) by retaining finite-electron inertia. These XMHD equations couple the fluid velocity ${\bf V} =…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Alain J. Brizard

We review the conservation laws of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an expanding homogeneous and isotropic Universe that can be applied to the study of early Universe physics during the epoch of radiation domination. The conservation laws for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Alberto Roper Pol , Antonino Salvino Midiri

Firstly, we give a historical overview of attempts to incorporate magnetic fields into the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method by solving the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), leading an honest assessment of the current…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel J. Price

We establish the local existence and uniqueness of multi-dimensional contact discontinuities for the ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in Sobolev spaces, which are most typical interfacial waves for astrophysical plasmas and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Yanjin Wang , Zhouping Xin

We extend recently-developed mesh-free Lagrangian methods for numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to arbitrary anisotropic diffusion equations, including: passive scalar diffusion, Spitzer-Braginskii conduction and viscosity, cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Philip F. Hopkins

Computational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for space physics has become an essential area in understanding the multiscale dynamics of geophysical and astrophysical plasma processes, partially motivated by the lack of space data. Full MHD…

This paper studies the nonlinear evolution of magnetic field turbulence in proximity of steady ideal MHD configurations characterized by a small electric current, a small plasma flow, and approximate flux surfaces, a physical setting that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Naoki Sato , Michio Yamada

We present a new chemodynamical code based on the adaptive mesh refinement code RAMSES. The new code uses Eulerian hydrodynamics and N-body dynamics in a cosmological framework to trace the production and advection of several chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-13 C. Gareth Few , Stephanie Courty , Brad K. Gibson

We prove the local well-posedness of the 3D free-boundary incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with surface tension, which describe the motion of a perfect conducting fluid in an electromagnetic field. We adapt the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Xumin Gu , Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

We study the relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly and dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely Chiral MagnetoHydroDynamics (CMHD). We formulate CMHD as a low-energy effective theory based on a generalized derivative expansion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Koichi Hattori , Yuji Hirono , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

Cosmological field-level inference requires differentiable forward models that solve the challenging dynamics of gas and dark matter under hydrodynamics and gravity. We propose a hybrid approach where gravitational forces are computed using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Arne Thomsen , Tilman Tröster , François Lanusse

We present new 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a supernova-driven, stratified interstellar medium. These simulations were run using the Waagan (2009) positivity preserving scheme for ideal MHD implemented in the Flash code. The…

A two dimensional hydrochemical hybrid code, KM2, is constructed to deal with astrophysical problems that would require coupled hydrodynamical and chemical evolution. The code assumes axisymmetry in cylindrical coordinate system, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Kazutaka Motoyama , Oscar Morata , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Tatsuhiko Hasegawa

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of incompressible viscous fluids with finite electrical conductivity describe the motion of viscous electrically conducting fluids in a magnetic field. In this paper, we find twelve families of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Bintao Cao

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

Recent years have seen a significant progress in the development of general relativistic codes for the numerical solution of the equations of magnetohydrodynamics in spacetimes with high and dynamical curvature. These codes are valuable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla