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A new approximate Riemann solver for the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with an isothermal equation of state is presented. The proposed method of solution draws on the recent work of Miyoshi and Kusano, in the context of adiabatic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Mignone

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

A new code and methodology are introduced for solving the general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) equations in fixed background spacetimes using time-explicit, finite-volume discretization. The code has options for solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Anninos , P. Chris Fragile , Jay D. Salmonson

We present 2D MHD numerical simulations of tearing-unstable current sheets coupled to a population of non-thermal test-particles, in order to address the problem of numerical convergence with respect to grid resolution, numerical method and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Eleonora Puzzoni , Andrea Mignone , Gianluigi Bodo

Equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) play an important role in the studies of turbulence, astrophysics, and plasma physics. These equations possess remarkable geometric structures and symmetries. Indeed, they admit a geodesic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Michael Roop

We describe a novel splitting approach to numerical relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) designed to expand its applicability to the domain of ultra-high magnetisation (high-$\sigma$). In this approach, the electromagnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Serguei Komissarov , David Phillips

We present the new general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of the Einstein Toolkit, an open-source community-driven numerical relativity and computational relativistic astrophysics code. The GRMHD extension of the…

In this paper we propose the first better than second order accurate method in space and time for the numerical solution of the resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RRMHD) equations on unstructured meshes in multiple space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Dumbser , Olindo Zanotti

Higher order finite volume schemes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) are very valuable because they allow us to carry out astrophysical simulations with very high accuracy. However, astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Deepak Bhoriya , Chetan Singh , Harish Kumar , Roger Käppeli , Federico Gatti

We design a conservative finite difference scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations that attains high-order accuracy, shock-capturing, and divergence-free condition of the magnetic field. The scheme interpolates pointwise physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Takashi Minoshima , Takahiro Miyoshi , Yosuke Matsumoto

We introduce a novel structure-preserving method in order to approximate the compressible ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. This technique addresses the MHD equations using a non-divergence formulation, where the contributions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov , Ignacio Tomas

We have generalised the exact solution of the Riemann problem in special relativistic hydrodynamics for arbitrary tangential flow velocities. The solution is obtained by solving the jump conditions across shocks plus an ordinary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Pons , J. Ma. Marti , E. Muller

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

In this study, we propose a class of total variation diminishing (TVD) schemes for solving pseudo-monotone variational inequality arises in elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication point contact problem. A limiter based stable hybrid line splittings…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Peeyush Singh

In this paper, we have solved 1D special relativistic hydrodynamical equations using different numerical method in computational gas dynamics. The numerical solutions of these equations for smooth wave cases give better solution when we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez

The metriplectic framework, which permits to formulate an algebraic structure for dissipative systems, is applied to visco-resistive Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD), adapting what had already been done for non-ideal Hydrodynamics (HD). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Massimo Materassi , Emanuele Tassi

A numerical method for the quasi-neutral two-fluid (QNTF) plasma model is described. The basic equations are ion and electron fluid equations and the Maxwell equations without displacement current. The neglect of displacement current is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Takanobu Amano

A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper. The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Farah Kanbar , Rony Touma , Christian Klingenberg

This paper establishes a regularity theory for the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with external forces through scaling analysis. Inspired by the existing methodology, we utilize linearized approximations and the monotonicity property…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Mengyao Ding , Wenwen Huo , Chao Zhang

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