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Analyzing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows requires accurate predictions of the Lorentz force and energy conversion. Total energy, cross-helicity, and magnetic helicity can be used to investigate energy conservation properties in inviscid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Hideki Yanaoka

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

We present a new computational method for smoothly matching general relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to its force-free limit. The method is based on a flux-conservative formalism for MHD and its force-free limit, and a vector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a new algorithm for numerical magnetohydrodynamics on staggered meshes preserving $\nabla \cdot B = 0$. Our algorithm is based on the constrained transport method and supports both cell-based adaptive mesh refinement and temporal…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Ilja Honkonen , Riku Jarvinen , David Phillips

We have written and tested a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, capable of evolving MHD fluids in dynamical spacetimes with adaptive-mesh refinement (AMR). Our code solves the Einstein-Maxwell-MHD system of coupled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

In recent years, several different strategies have emerged for evolving the magnetic field in numerical MHD. Some of these methods can be classified as divergence-cleaning schemes, where one evolves the magnetic field components just like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dinshaw Balsara , Jongsoo Kim

We describe a method for incorporating ambipolar diffusion in the strong coupling approximation into a multidimensional magnetohydrodynamics code based on the total variation diminishing scheme. Contributions from ambipolar diffusion terms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eunwoo Choi , Jongsoo Kim , Paul J. Wiita

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

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

We develop a new numerical scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, which is robust against one- and multi-dimensional shocks, and is accurate for low Mach number flows and discontinuities. The scheme belongs to a family of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Takashi Minoshima , Keiichi Kitamura , Takahiro Miyoshi

In numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), a major challenge is maintaining zero magnetic field-divergence (div-B). Constrained transport (CT) schemes can achieve this at high accuracy, but have generally been restricted to very specific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Philip F. Hopkins

We extend the recently introduced explicit divergence-free DG scheme for incompressible hydrodynamics [arXiv:1808.04669]. to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). A globally divergence-free finite element space is used for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Guosheng Fu

We develop a new second-order unstaggered path-conservative central-upwind (PCCU) scheme for ideal and shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. The new scheme possesses several important properties: it locally preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Alina Chertock , Alexander Kurganov , Michael Redle , Kailiang Wu

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

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Pouquet , E. Lee , M. E. Brachet , P. D. Mininni , D. Rosenberg

Recently, we developed a pair of meshless finite-volume Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics: the 'meshless finite mass' (MFM) and 'meshless finite volume' (MFV) methods. These capture advantages of both smoothed-particle hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins , Matthias J. Raives

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

Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Anna Karina Fontes Gomes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Odim Mendes , Kai Schneider

In this work we introduce a novel semi-implicit structure-preserving finite-volume/finite-difference scheme for the viscous and resistive equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) based on an appropriate 3-split of the governing PDE system,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Francesco Fambri

In astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and electrodynamics simulations, numerically enforcing the divB=0 constraint on the magnetic field has been difficult. We observe that for point-based discretization, as used in finite-difference…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Colin P. McNally