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We describe a new Godunov algorithm for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) that combines a simple, unsplit second order accurate integrator with the constrained transport (CT) method for enforcing the solenoidal constraint on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Kris Beckwith , James M. Stone

A numerical scheme is developed for systems of conservation laws on manifolds which arise in high speed aerodynamics and magneto-aerodynamics. The systems are presented in an arbitrary coordinate system on the manifold and involve source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Ian Holloway , Sivaguru S. Sritharan

This paper studies high-order accurate entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for the ideal special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). It is built on the modified RMHD equations with a particular source term, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Junming Duan , Huazhong Tang

Central schemes for conservation laws are Riemann solver free methods which are simple and easy to implement. In recent work for Euler equations [Kurganov & Xin, J. Sci. Comput., 96:56, 2023] their accuracy has been enhanced in terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yu-Chen Cheng , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

This article introduces a new 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium solver, based on the concept of admissible variations of B, p that allows for magnetic relaxation of a magnetic field in a perturbed/non-minimum energy state to a lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Tobias Blickhan , Julianne Stratton , Alan A. Kaptanoglu

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 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

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

It is well known that the three-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations possess three magnetic invariants: (M) magnetic helicity, (C) cross helicity, and (P) the mean-square magnetic potential, in addition to the fundamental…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Naoki Sato , Ken Abe , Michio Yamada

We present an exact analytic solution for decaying incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our solution reveals a dual formulation in terms of two interacting Euler ensembles--one for hydrodynamic and another for magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-15 Alexander Migdal

We present a novel method of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) within the smoothed particle hydrodynamics scheme using the Geometric Density average force expression (GDSPH). GDSPH has recently been shown to reduce the leading order errors and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Robert Wissing , Sijing Shen

We prove existence, uniqueness, and higher-order global regularity of strong solutions to a particular Voigt-regularization of the three-dimensional inviscid resistive Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. Specifically, the coupling of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Adam Larios , Edriss S. Titi

Physical problems with a solution that can be expressed analytically are scarce; this holds even more true for problems set in a cosmological context. Such solutions are, however, invaluable tools for making comparisons between theory,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Orestis A. Karapiperis , Matthieu Schaller

We analyze the cosmic-ray magnetohydrodynamic (CR MHD) equations to improve the numerical simulations. We propose to solve them in the fully conservation form, which is equivalent to the conventional CR MHD equations. In the fully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-07 Yuki Kudoh , Tomoyuki Hanawa

In Lagrangian coordinates, the local well-posedness of low regularity solutions is established for an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system subject to a homogeneous background magnetic field. First, the MHD system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Huali Zhang

We present a general procedure to solve numerically the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations within the framework of the 3+1 formalism. The work reported here extends our previous investigation in general relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 L. Anton , O. Zanotti , J. A. Miralles , J. M. Marti , J. M. Ibanez , J. A. Font , J. A. Pons

The explicit quasi-monotonic conservative TVD scheme and numerical method for the solution of the gravitational MHD equations are developed. The 2D numerical code for the simulation of multidimensional selfgravitating MHD flows on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander E. Dudorov , Oleg A. Kuznetsov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

This paper presents a novel high-order cell-centered Lagrangian scheme for 2D compressible hydrodynamics by bridging the multi-moment constrained finite volume method (MCV) [16, 51, 52] with a nodal Riemann solver. This scheme (denoted by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Xiaoteng Zhang , Xun Wang , Zhijun Shen , Chao Yang

We are concerned with a model of ideal compressible isentropic two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Introducing an entropy-like function, we reduce the equations of two-fluid MHD to a symmetric form which looks like the classical MHD…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Lizhi Ruan , Yuri Trakhinin

The coupled motion between the hydrodynamic flow and magnetic field introduces significant complexity into the structure of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A key factor contributing to this complexity is the presence of Alfv\'en…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Shangkun Weng , Wengang Yang
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