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In this paper we study the problem of divergence-free numerical MHD and show that the work done so far still has four key unresolved issues. We resolve those issues in this paper. The problem of reconstructing MHD flow variables with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara

Solving the problem of fast eruptive events in magnetically dominated astrophysical plasmas requires the use of particularly well adapted numerical tools. Indeed, the central mechanism based on magnetic reconnection is determined by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Hubert Baty

We assemble the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in 3+1 form. These consist of the complete coupled set of Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field, Einstein's equations for the gravitational field, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a new numerical tool for solving the special relativistic ideal MHD equations that is based on the combination of the following three key features: (i) a one-step ADER discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme that allows for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Olindo Zanotti , Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser

Using a new numerical code we have carried out two-dimensional simulations of the nonlinear evolution of unstable sheared magnetohydrodynamic flows. We considered two cases: a strong magnetic field (Alfven Mach number, M_a = 2.5) and a weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Adam Frank , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Joseph B. Gaalaas

The two-fluid Maxwell system couples frictionless electron and ion fluids via Maxwell's equations. When the frequencies of light waves, Langmuir waves, and single-particle cyclotron motion are scaled to be asymptotically large, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 J. W. Burby

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

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

In this article, we consider the 3D-rotating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system when the initial velocity and magnetic field both feature some 2D-part (i.-e. depending only on the horizontal space variables). We prove for weak and strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Frédéric Charve , Van-Sang Ngo

Magnetohydrodynamics is an important tool to study the dynamics of plasma Space Physics. In this context, we introduce a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic solver with divergence-cleaning in the adaptive multiresolution CARMEN code. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

We present a numerical solver for plasma dynamics simulations in Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) approximation in one, two and three dimensions. We consider both isotropic and anisotropic thermal pressure cases, where a general gyrotropic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Marek Strumik , Krzysztof Stasiewicz

We consider the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the presence of a spatially degenerate stochastic forcing as a model for magnetostrophic turbulence in the Earth's fluid core. We examine the multi-parameter singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Juraj Földes , Susan Friedlander , Nathan Glatt-Holtz , Geordie Richards

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomoaki Matsumoto

Numerically solving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations faces many challenges: avoiding divergence error, maintaining positivity, and satisfying entropy conditions. Among discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes, there has been a modal version…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Yue Wu , Chi-Wang Shu

We propose several continuous data assimilation (downscaling) algorithms based on feedback control for the 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We show that for sufficiently large choices of the control parameter and resolution and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Animikh Biswas , Joshua Hudson , Adam Larios , Yuan Pei

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

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

We perform a suite of two- and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the Athena code of the non-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the subsonic, weak magnetic field limit. Focusing the analysis on the non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Greg Salvesen , Kris Beckwith , Jacob B. Simon , Sean M. O'Neill , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present a virtual element method (VEM) for the numerical approximation of the electromagnetics subsystem of the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model in two spatial dimensions. The major advantages of the virtual element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 S. Naranjo Alvarez , V. A. Bokil , V. Gyrya , G. Manzini

Within the context of a viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model with anisotropic heat transport and cross-field mass diffusion, we introduce novel three-term representations for the magnetic field (background vacuum field, field line…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Nikita Nikulsin , Matthias Hoelzl , Alessandro Zocco , Karl Lackner , Sibylle Günter