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We present a fourth-order accurate finite volume method for the solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The numerical method combines high-order quadrature rules in the solution of semi-discrete formulations of hyperbolic conservation…

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We describe how analytic solutions for linear hydromagnetic waves can be used for testing cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) codes. We start from the comoving MHD equations and derive analytic solutions for the amplitude evolution of…

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In this work, we design an entropy stable, finite volume approximation for the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The method is novel as we design an affordable analytical expression of the numerical interface flux function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-01 Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner

The resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations as usually defined in the quasineutral approximation refer to a system of 14 scalar equations in 14 scalar variables, hence are determined to be complete and soluble. These equations are a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Robert W. Johnson

Many interesting terrestrial and astrophysical scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Even though the Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to handle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-05 Domingo García-Senz , Robert Wissing , Rubén M. Cabezón

We consider a gravitational wave oscillating in an initially homogeneous, magnetized fluid. The fluid is perfectly conducting and isentropic, and the magnetic field is initially uniform. We find analytic solutions for the case in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Branson C. Stephens

In this paper, we extend the unsplit staggered mesh scheme (USM) for 2D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) (Lee and Deane, 2009) to a full 3D MHD scheme. The scheme is a finite-volume Godunov method consisting of a constrained transport (CT) method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Dongwook Lee

Numerical simulations of ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are challenging, as the solutions are required to be magnetic divergence-free for general cases as well as oscillation-free for cases involving discontinuities.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Wei Zeng , Qian Wang

This article considers the ideal 2D magnetohydrodynamic equations on an infinite periodic channel close to a combination of an affine shear flow, called Couette flow, and a constant magnetic field. This setting combines important physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Niklas Knobel

We compare a particular selection of approximate solutions of the Riemann problem in the context of ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In particular, we focus on Riemann solvers not requiring a full eigenvector structure. Such solvers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-23 Giancarlo Mattia , Andrea Mignone

High-energy astrophysical systems and compact objects are frequently modeled using ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) or force-free electrodynamic (FFE) simulations, with the underlying assumption that the discretisation from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Michael P. Grehan , Tanisha Ghosal , James R. Beattie , Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Fabio Bacchini

We study a turbulent helical dynamo in a periodic domain by solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with the FLASH code using the divergence-cleaning eight-wave method and compare our results with direct numerical simulations…

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We study decaying magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence stemming from the evolution of the Taylor-Green (TG) flow generalized recently to MHD, with equal viscosity and magnetic resistivity and up to equivalent grid resolutions of 2048^3…

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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) phenomena play a pivotal role in the design and operation of nuclear fusion systems, where electrically conducting fluids (such as liquid metals or molten salts employed in reactor blankets) interact with magnetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 M. Lo Verso , C. Introini , E. Cervi , L. Savoldi , J. N. Kutz , A. Cammi

Many astrophysical and terrestrial scenarios involving magnetic fields can be approached in axial geometry. Although the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique has been successfully extended to magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Domingo García-Senz , Robert Wissing , Rubén M. Cabezón , Eda Vurgun , Manuel Linares

A new class of analytical 2-D solutions of the full set of the steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, describing an axisymmetric helicoidal magnetized outflow originating from a rotating central object, is presented. The solutions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. J. G. Lima , E. R. Priest , K. Tsinganos

We study a general convergence theory for the analysis of numerical solutions to the magnetohydrodynamic system describing the time evolution of compressible, viscous, electrically conducting fluids in space dimension d (= 2; 3). First, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Yang Li , Bangwei She

In this paper, we are concerned with the two-dimensional (2D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with velocity dissipation given by $(-\Delta)^{\alpha}$ and magnetic diffusion given by reducing about logarithmic diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Chao Deng , Zhuan Ye , Baoquan Yuan , Jiefeng Zhao

In magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the magnetic field is evolved by the induction equation and coupled to the gas dynamics by the Lorentz force. We perform numerical smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (Spmhd) simulations and study the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. A. Stasyszyn , K. Dolag , A. M. Beck

Understanding the origin and evolution of magnetic fields on cosmological scales opens up a window into the physics of the early Universe. Numerical simulations of such fields require a careful treatment to faithfully solve the equations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Nikyta Shchutskyi , Matthieu Schaller , Orestis A. Karapiperis , Federico A. Stasyszyn , Axel Brandenburg