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We develop a second-order well-balanced central-upwind scheme for the compressible Euler equations with gravitational source term. Here, we advocate a new paradigm based on a purely conservative reformulation of the equations using global…

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We study the impact of an Upwind scheme on the numerical convergence of simulations of the Hall and Ohmic effect in neutron stars crusts. While simulations of these effects have explored a variety of geometries and wide ranges of physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-07 Georgios Chouliaras , K. N Gourgouliatos

Robust and accurate fully implicit finite-volume schemes applied to Darcy-scale multiphase flow and transport in porous media are highly desirable. Recently, a smooth approximation of the saturation-dependent flux coefficients based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Francois P. Hamon , Bradley T. Mallison

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the three-dimensional whole space, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated by geophysical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jincheng Gao , Xianpeng Hu , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu

We present a constrained transport (CT) algorithm for solving the 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on a moving mesh, which maintains the divergence-free condition on the magnetic field to machine-precision. Our CT scheme uses an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Lars Hernquist

We introduce a general framework for the construction of well-balanced finite volume methods for hyperbolic balance laws. We use the phrase well-balancing in a broader sense, since our proposed method can be applied to exactly follow any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Jonas P. Berberich , Praveen Chandrashekar , Christian Klingenberg

This paper focuses on an optimal error analysis of a fully discrete finite element scheme for the Cahn--Hilliard--magnetohydrodynamic (CH-MHD) system. The method use the standard inf-sup stable Taylor--Hood/MINI elements to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Haiyan Su , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Ke Zhang

In this paper, we develop new high-order numerical methods for hyperbolic systems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertainties. The new approach is realized in the semi-discrete finite-volume framework and is based…

This paper focuses on the 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations without magnetic diffusion in a periodic domain. We present a systematic approach to establishing the global existence of smooth solutions when the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu

We present a new multi-dimensional, robust, and cell-centered finite-volume scheme for the ideal MHD equations. This scheme relies on relaxation and splitting techniques and can be easily used at high order. A fully conservative version is…

In this paper we present an analytical study of a subgrid scale turbulence model of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, inspired by the Navier-Stokes-alpha (also known as the viscous Camassa-Holm equations or the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-28 Jasmine S. Linshiz , Edriss S. Titi

This paper develops the high-order accurate entropy stable (ES) finite difference schemes for the shallow water magnetohydrodynamic (SWMHD) equations.They are built on the numerical approximation of the modified SWMHD equations with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Junming Duan , Huazhong Tang

In Lagrangian coordinates, the local well-posedness of low regularity solutions is established for an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system subject to a homogeneous background magnetic field. First, the MHD system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Huali Zhang

High-order reconstruction schemes for the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates are revised in the finite volume approach. The formulation employs a piecewise polynomial approximation to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Mignone

We present a second-order Godunov algorithm for multidimensional, ideal MHD. Our algorithm is based on the unsplit formulation of Colella (J. Comput. Phys. vol. 87, 1990), with all of the primary dependent variables centered at the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. K. Crockett , P. Colella , R. T. Fisher , R. I. Klein , C. F. McKee

The paper develops high-order accurate physical-constraints-preserving finite difference WENO schemes for special relativistic hydrodynamical (RHD) equations, built on the local Lax-Friedrich splitting, the WENO reconstruction, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Kailiang Wu , Huazhong Tang

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 technique is proposed for constructing three-dimensional solutions comlplying with the self-consistent magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equations and with observations along the line of sight of the magnetic field at the photosphere. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. V. Rudenko

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Lile Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

In various astrophysics settings it is common to have a two-fluid relativistic plasma that interacts with the electromagnetic field. While it is common to ignore the displacement current in the ideal, classical magnetohydrodynamic limit,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Takanobu Amano , Sudip Garain , Jinho Kim