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In certain astrophysical systems the commonly employed ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approximation breaks down. Here, we introduce novel explicit and implicit numerical schemes of ohmic resistivity terms in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-09 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Rahul Kannan , Philip Mocz , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

In this work we develop a class of high-order finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (FD-WENO) schemes for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in 2D and 3D. The philosophy of this work is to use efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Andrew J. Christlieb , James A. Rossmanith , Qi Tang

A robust second order, shock-capturing numerical scheme for multi-dimensional special relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on computational domains with adaptive mesh refinement is presented. The base solver is a total variation diminishing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. van der Holst , R. Keppens , Z. Meliani

Numerical methods for solving the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in more than one space dimension must confront the challenge of controlling errors in the discrete divergence of the magnetic field. One approach that has been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Christiane Helzel , James A. Rossmanith , Bertram Taetz

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Kyle Gerard Felker , James Stone

In two previous papers (Price & Monaghan 2004a,b) (papers I,II) we have described an algorithm for solving the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The algorithm uses dissipative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

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

We present novel numerical schemes for ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations aimed at enhancing stability against numerical shock instability and improving the accuracy of low-speed flows in multidimensions. Stringent benchmark tests…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-22 Takashi Minoshima

We present a new numerical code which solves the general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics (GRMHD) equations coupled to the Einstein equations for the evolution of a dynamical spacetime within the conformally-flat approximation. This code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , José A. Font , Luis Antón , Ewald Müller

We examine the effect of accuracy of high-order spectral element methods, with or without adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), in the context of a classical configuration of magnetic reconnection in two space dimensions, the so-called…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Rosenberg , A. Pouquet , P. D. Mininni

A multi-symplectic formulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is developed based on a Clebsch variable variational principle in which the Lagrangian consists of the kinetic minus the potential energy of the MHD fluid modified by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , J. F. McKenzie , G. P. Zank

We show that an infinite number of non-unitary minimal models may describe two dimensional turbulent magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), both in the presence and absence of the Alf'ven effect. We argue that the existence of a critical dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. R. Rahimitabar , S. Rouhani

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

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 developed a new three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code, RAISHIN, using a conservative, high resolution shock-capturing scheme. The numerical fluxes are calculated using the Harten, Lax, & van Leer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosuke Mizuno , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Shinji Koide , Philip Hardee , Gerald J. Fishman

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

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

We present a new code designed to solve the equations of classical ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) in three dimensions, submitted to a constant gravitational field. The purpose of the code centers on the analysis of solar phenomena within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , F. S. Guzman

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…

We review the numerical techniques for ideal and non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) used in the context of star formation simulations. We outline the specific challenges offered by modeling star forming environments, which are dominated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Romain Teyssier , Benoit Commercon